Overview
- Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández met SSPX Superior General Davide Pagliarani on Feb. 12 with Pope Leo XIV’s approval.
- The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith proposed a tightly framed theological dialogue on contested Vatican II questions, including religious submission versus an act of faith and the degrees of adherence owed to conciliar texts.
- The Vatican said the talks aim to identify minimum requirements for full communion and to outline a possible canonical structure for the society.
- Officials made dialogue contingent on suspending the announced episcopal consecrations and warned that illicit ordinations incur automatic excommunication and a decisive rupture of ecclesial communion.
- Pagliarani will present the offer to the SSPX Superior Council and reply to the Vatican, with any subsequent procedures to be set by mutual agreement if the society responds positively.