{"id":92390,"date":"2026-07-14T15:47:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=92390"},"modified":"2026-07-14T15:49:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:49:55","slug":"lefebvrian-excommunication-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2026\/07\/14\/lefebvrian-excommunication-lifted\/","title":{"rendered":"Lefebvrian Excommunication Lifted?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Daniel del Castillo Gonz\u00e1lez<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Priestly Society of Saint Pius X has filed a petition against the excommunication decree issued by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the decree, signed on July 2 by the Prefect, Cardinal Fern\u00e1ndez, several bishops of the Society have been excommunicated. The same penalty applies to whoever, priest or lay, formally adheres to the movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 13, the Society issued a communiqu\u00e9 stating that they had filed an appeal in accordance with Canons 1734 and following of the Code of Canon Law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These codes regard the administrative decrees issued by Church authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the same statement, the Society, citing the Code of Canon Law, holds that the excommunication is suspended until the case is settled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>GFX<\/strong>- \u201c<em>An appeal or recourse against judgements of a court or against decrees which impose or declare any penalty has a suspensive effect.\u201d<br>Canon 1353 Code of Canon Law<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Society thus seeks to exercise rights recognized by the Church for any person who considers themselves to have been harmed by an administrative act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Vatican sources that spoke to Rome Reports, the submission of the document does not entail the annulment of the excommunication decree, although it could temporarily suspend its enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith can now modify its decree, reject the appeal, or simply not reply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If, in thirty days a decision has not been reached, the time restrictions allow for a subsequent appeal to be made to the Apostolic Signatura.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel del Castillo Gonz\u00e1lez The Priestly Society of Saint Pius X has filed a petition against the excommunication decree issued by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. According to the decree, signed on July 2 by the Prefect, Cardinal Fern\u00e1ndez, several bishops of the Society have been excommunicated. The same penalty applies to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":92386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ji5GiwNzvAw","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bfermatascomunicatieng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bfermatascomunicatiint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92393,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92390\/revisions\/92393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}