On the same day the change was announced, the Vatican’s new media team put out an official explainer. This is one of the most important changes Francis has made to the structure of the Roman Curia since becoming pope. On January 19, during the week of prayer for Christian unity (January 18–25), the Vatican announced that Francis had decided to abolish Ecclesia Dei, the pontifical commission created by John Paul II in 1988, and to reassign its work to a section within the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Recently there was an important turning point. (In 2010 Williamson was fined by a German court for denying the Holocaust, and on January 31, 2019, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg upheld the sentence, rejecting Williamson’s rights case against the German court’s decision as “manifestly ill-founded.”) Benedict’s overture to the SSPX was-along with Summorum pontificum, his 2007 motu proprio on the liturgy-part of an effort at reconciliation with Catholic traditionalists who had broken with the church after the Second Vatican Council.įrancis has had to deal with the consequences of Benedict’s rapprochement with traditionalists since the beginning of his pontificate. Almost immediately after Benedict’s decision was announced, it was revealed that one of these four bishops, Richard Williamson, had made anti-Semitic statements. The SSPX bishops had all been consecrated by Marcel Lefebvre in 1988 without Rome’s permission. One of the most critical moments in the pontificate of Benedict XVI came on January 24, 2009, when a press release from the Holy See Press Office announced that the pope had lifted the excommunication against four bishops of the Society of St.
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