Brian Mershon
September 18, 2006
From the Sept. 21, 2006, issue of The Wanderer
excerpt:
Dario Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos announced the creation of the Institute of the Good Shepherd in a document released on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, September 8.
Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos, the prefect for the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei and the Congregation for the Clergy, in concert with the Congregation for Religious, wrote that this new institute has been erected as a pastoral measure for those faithful attached to the ancient liturgical traditions in Bordeaux, France. This Institute has been established ad experimentum for a period of five years as a personal parish that will include the church of St. Eloi.
The Ecclesia Dei document said that Jean-Pierre Cardinal Ricard, archbishop of Bordeaux, president of the French Episcopal Conference, and a member of the Ecclesia Dei Commission, welcomed this new Priestly Society of Apostolic Right into his episcopal city to fulfill the desires of the Catholic faithful.
The September 8 decree stated approvingly that the Institute of Good Shepherd is offering its pastoral service to other bishops who may desire its pastoral service. The five priests of the new Institute were originally priests of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), who for various reasons over the past few years have become disassociated with it. They also have several seminarians, some of whom will be ordained soon by Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos, according to news reports.
The decree named Abbot Philippe Laguérie as the first superior of this institute. The abbot pulled no punches in his sermon on Sunday, September 10, according to Le Figaro.
Regarding the priests within the newly erected Institute, he reportedly said that Rome required no concessions from the priests, presumably regarding the Second Vatican Council, and in fact, insisted that they work together in harmony with the Church to re-clarify its doctrines in the current climate of confusion. "No compromise was required!" said Abbot Laguérie, in the September 11 edition.
Fr. Paul Aulagnier joins Abbot Laguérie along with three other French priests. He is a notable priest who was expelled by the SSPX in 2003 after he publicly expressed his dissatisfaction with SSPX leadership for not accepting a personal apostolic administration, reportedly with worldwide jurisdiction, similar to that of the now regularized St. John Marie Vianney Campos, Brazil, priests, with Bishop Fernando Rifan as their ordinary.
Fr. Aulagnier, along with Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, was one of the founding members of the SSPX.
Via NLM
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