decree of excommunication <\/a>declaring the SSPX to be in a state of schism following its July 1 ordination of four bishops without a papal mandate.<\/p>\n\u201cFollowing the decree of schism and excommunication published by the Holy See, I cannot authorize the celebration of the Mass or the other sacraments, not even the public prayers of the Society of St. Pius X within the shrine,\u201d the bishop of Lourdes explained.<\/p>\n
Therefore, “the authorization that until now was granted to the SSPX to do so is therefore withdrawn. On the other hand, it is obviously possible that whoever so desires can freely come to the grotto or other places at the shrine to pray privately,\u201d the prelate noted.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am well aware of the pain and perhaps the lack of understanding that this decision will cause. I entrust my decision to God\u2019s mercy. We are deeply pained by the tearing of Christ\u2019s tunic caused by our divisions. They scandalize the little ones and hinder our witness to the Gospel,\u201d the bishop stated.<\/p>\n
This story was first published <\/a>by ACI Prensa, the Spanish-language sister service of EWTN News. It has been translated and adapted by EWTN News English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes in France, Jean-Marc Micas, has revoked the authorization for priests of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3351,2340,41870,5,9636,41869],"class_list":["post-67853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-catholic-church-in-france","tag-catholic-news","tag-excommunication","tag-france","tag-lourdes","tag-sspx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}