After the Society of St. Pius X, who had had bishops previously excommunicated by Pope John Paul II restored by Ratzi the Nazi, aka Benedict XVI, decided to ordain four new bishops, one wondered just how hard Leo would come down.
He not only excommunicated the four, but the entire order.
Last Wednesday's ordination came 38 years to the day after JPII excommunicated Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, the founder of the anti-Vatican II group.
Beyond that, the Swiss event was itself not wholly authentic, as the sermon was not in Latin. Yes, that was the norm pre-Vatican II, but that's the whole point. Vatican II made the liturgy as well as the sermon accessible.
Beyond that? Neither the Tanakh nor He Kaine Diatheke was written in Latin.
As to why?
After Benedict reversed the excommunications, Francis continued dialogue. Leo might have done that, but, even if SSPX's two remaining bishops were aging out, he wasn't prepared to go further at this time, and so surely felt he had to draw a hard line.
FAFO will now be seen, in English, throughout the Vatican world.
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