"No doctrinal obstacle for SSPX reconciliation"- member of the Curia






Monsignor Arrieta on the SSPX

Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, confirmed that there are no doctrinal obstacles to reconciliation with the Society of St. Pius X. "I think we were able to clarify the doctrinal problems, even if it was not easy writing this down on paper. The real problem as it seems to me, is the separation, the distance between humans, which dates back to 1988. "

Monsignor Arrieta, a Spanish Curial bishop belongs to the Opus Dei, stated this on Monday, 7 May in Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium, as reported by the Belgian daily La Libre Belgique . Topics of the presentation by Archbishop Arrieta were among other issues the canonical inclusion of Anglicans into the Catholic Church, who asking for full unity with Rome and the case of the former scandalous bishop of Bruges, Roger Vangheluwe.

Monsignor Arrieta is directly involved in the reconciliation talks between the Holy See with the SSPX. He  personally deals with the question of the canonical inclusion and thus concerned the future canonical status of the SSPX.

The Spanish bishop has been since 2008, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts. n February 2012, he ordained members of the Fraternity of St. Peter in Wigratzbad to the Lesser Orders and Sub-diaconate.

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