Pope in the middle.ROME -- Pope Benedict XVI  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. received visitors from both sides of the theological spectrum over his summer vacation Summer vacation (also called summer holidays or summer break) is a vacation in the summertime between school years in which students are off for 3 months, depending on the country and district. . The Tablet reports that on August 29 the pope met the head of the separatist Society of St. Pius X The Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) is an international society of Traditionalist Roman Catholic priests. Its official Latin name is Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Pii X, which means "Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X". , Bishop Bernard Fellay Bernard Fellay, SSPX (born 12 April 1958) is a bishop of the Society of St. Pius X and is currently its Superior General. He has incurred excommunication latae sententiae because of his episcopal consecration by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, deemed by the Holy See to be "illicit" . The S.S.P.X. was founded in 1970 by Swiss Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre Marcel-François Lefebvre (November 29 1905 – March 25 1991), better known as Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, was a French Roman Catholic bishop. Following a career as a missionary in Africa with the Holy Ghost Fathers, he took the lead in opposing the changes within the , who rejected Vatican II and was excommunicated in 1988. Fellay described the papal election as "a gleam of hope that we may find a way out of the profound crisis that is shaking the Catholic Church." Pope Benedict had dinner a month later with one of his fiercest liberal critics, Swiss theologian Father Hans Kung. According to the National Catholic Reporter, the two focused their discussions on the dialogue between science and Christian faith and on Kung's work toward the development of a "world ethic" that crosses cultural and religious boundaries. "It's not that we agree on everything," Kung said. "But the pope has great empathy for the problems of the world and wanted to give a positive sign." |
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