France: The Assisi meeting in the Letter to our brother priests
Fr. Christian Bouchacourt.
In the latest edition of the Letter to our brother priests (no. 71, September 2016) that Society of St. Pius X addresses to the clergy of France, Fr. Christian Bouchacourt comments in his editorial on the interreligious meeting of Assisi of September 20th. The District Superior of France points out what is truly at stake, far from the ecumenical irenism upheld by the media:
“It is the principle itself of the Assisi meeting for peace that seems to us to be stained with a grave theological error. The Pope is not a clever diplomat who seeks out the psychological conditions for an agreement at a point in time. His goal is peace itself, true peace. But the only solid and profound peace is Our Lord Jesus Christ, “for He is our peace” (Ephesians 2, 14). And as St. Paul says here, it is through His Blood that He carries out this reconciliation, that He lays low the wall of separation, that He reconciles the peoples.
“In failing to recall this essential fact, in not preaching “in season and out of season” the reign of Christ, “reign of justice, love and peace” (Preface of Christ the King), in depriving men of this capital truth that peace cannot come except through Christ the Saviour, “for there is no other name under heaven given to men” that can assure them of a durable and real peace, the event in Assisi sins without any doubt against the Catholic Faith.”
(Source: LNFP – DICI no. 344, dated November 11, 2016)
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