Institute of the Good Shepherd

The Institut du Bon Pasteur ( " Institute of the Good Shepherd ") is a altritualistische Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical Right, which is mainly present in France. Its headquarters is located in Migné - Auxances in the department of Vienne.

The Institute

The Institute was established by the Papal Commission " Ecclesia Dei " on September 8, 2006 to five years initially ad experimentum. The founding generation, which represents the leading members of the Institute to date, including (as Holocaust deniers known ) main founder and current Superior General Philippe Laguérie, consists of former members of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X, which, owing to the canonically irregular situation of the Brotherhood and the had separated from her illicit ordinations carried out by this. The members of the Institute have been proven to loyalty to the " infallible magisterium of the Church," that is, the Roman Pope and the Ecumenical Councils, required to wear but " serious and constructive criticism " to the decisions of the Second Vatican Council and their implementation on. In internal affairs of the Institute is subject to the Holy See, in matters of pastoral care to the competent diocesan bishop. The official purpose of the Institute is the pastoral care of altritualistisch minded faithful of the Roman Catholic Church in France and the other countries where it is prevalent.

According to the articles of association, the Company celebrates as their own rite ( comme leur propre rite ) exclusively to the Roman rite after his in 1962, ie before the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council, applicable order. Members of society do not exert concelebrated Eucharist, therefore, act at Masses according to the renewed liturgical order of the Roman Catholic Church is not in priestly function.

A Center of the Institute is Bordeaux where to August 2011 was from February 2007, his headquarters and operates its own training center at the parish church of Saint- Eloi. As a theological training center for its members, the Institute also operates its own seminary Saint- Vincent- de -Paul, which in the possession of the Marquis de Gontaud -Biron in the Village Court Alain ( Dep. Eure- et- Loir, diocese of Chartres ) was built. The formed there candidates and new priests come primarily according to the Institute of France, Spain, Brazil, Poland and Chile. A national and international spread of the Institute is aimed at. In Paris it is represented with the Centre Saint -Paul. At the international level, there is a branch in Rome, and a Latin American District. Establishment trials in Colombia and Chile were thwarted by the resistance dortiger bishops.

Personal parish Saint- Eloi (Bordeaux)

By decree of 1 February 2007, the Archbishop of Bordeaux, Cardinal Jean -Pierre Ricard, at the Church of St. Eligius ( Saint- Eloi ) in Bordeaux a personal parish for Catholics who desire to celebrate the pre-conciliar " liturgy of 1962", built and the Superior General of the Institut du Bon Pasteur, Philippe Laguérie, ad experimentum appointed for five years to their pastor. At the same time a force for five years to reevaluierende annual agreement concluded between the Archbishop and the Institute, which provides, inter alia: all services of this personal parish, especially the sacraments may be celebrated only in the Church of Saint Eloi. Processions and other events outside of the church building require the prior written permission of the archbishop.

School project Cours Saint

Since 2006, the Institut du Bon Pasteur also ran a private school in Bordeaux ( Cours Saint Projet ), which had been built at the instigation of the parishioners of the parish staff. This had to be closed in May 2010, under pressure from the state education authorities, according to reports from Vatican Radio. In April 2010, the French television channel France 2 had revealed in an undercover report with a hidden camera right-wing, racist and anti-Semitic remarks from teachers and students at the school. After considerable content and didactic shortcomings, especially in the fields of science and history had been identified as part of a response to these concerns review of the school by the school board, the school board asked the students' parents to enroll their children in other schools.

Election of the Institute

In spring 2012, it came after a visitation by the head of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, Monsignor Guido Pozzo, reached their results by indiscretion to the public, to irritation, which provided in traditionalist circles within and outside the Institute of quite a stir and in speculation about tensions and a possible split of the Institute after its General Chapter in July culminated. The Roman Visitor of the institute had asked, among other things, ensure the positive appraisal of the Second Vatican Council in the context of his theological training and recognize the Catechism of the Catholic Church in its 1997 version as the authoritative compendium of church teaching. Also, the de facto exclusion of the ordinary Messzelebration is necessary to reconsider the renewed rite. In addition, the deletion of various theologically questionable blog article by members of the Institute was required of the Roman side.

The volatile nature had the operation because it coincided with the unification efforts of the Roman Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith with the Fraternity of St. Pius X took place and was seen by traditionalist opponents of this agreement as a warning of how the Roman authorities after a canonical regulation of the ratio could proceed with the Brotherhood.

The General Chapter elected July 5, 2012 in a controversial repeat ballot a new leadership, which consisted of younger members, who face the adaptation to the Roman principles according to internal assessments critical. The choice of Father Roch Perrel the new Superior of the community was challenged on the ground of ecclesiastical law concerns from the previous Superior General Father Philippe Laguérie. Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller, the prefect of the Congregation of the Faith, announced in his capacity as President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, which is placed under church law, the Institut du Bon Pasteur, the appeal of the former Superior General held and possessed July 30, 2012, that the choice to was repeated.

In a communiqué Laguérie said on October 9, on behalf of the Institute, Rome had repeatedly confirmed him in August and September 2012 as provisional weiteramtierenden Superior General and canceled the elections of the chapter of 3 (first ballot) and July 5 ( controversial recapitulation ). The election would be held in an aligned by the Commission Ecclesia Dei frame, details not yet facts are clear. Laguérie warned in this connection, battling and polemical public statements by individual members and urged all to respect the prescribed procedure of the Roman Curia. "Every other path leads to the rebellion or the sedevacantism ," said the institute's founder.

By letter from the Vice- President of the Commission Ecclesia Dei, Curia, Archbishop Augustine Di Noia, on 15 April 2013 were the resignation abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Fontgombault, Dom Antoine Forgeot appointed authorized Commissioner ( Commissaire plénipotentiaire ) of the Office of the Superior General of the Institute of the Good pastors should exercise for six months as acting and coordinate the election of the Institute and oversee. Finally, in Fontgombault newly constituted meeting of the General Chapter of the Institut du Bon Pasteur elected on 12 September 2013, Institute founder Abbé Philippe Laguérie again to the superior general. His term will last until 2019.