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Vatican Confirms "Dialogue PAGE 11 — The Georgia Bulletin, October 8,1987 Dissident Bishop Says Accord Reached BY JOHN THAVIS ROME (NC) — Suspended Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre said he had agreed to a Vatican offer of reconciliation that would allow his religious fraternity to keep the pre-Second Vatican Council Mass and sacramental rites. The Vatican press office, in a statement Oct. 6, confirmed that a “dialogue” was under way with Archbishop Lefebvre “with the purpose of nominating an apostolic visitator in the person of a cardinal, who will be entrusted with the task of defining the terms of a canonical regularization of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X.” At an Oct. 2 press conference in Econe, Switzerland, Arch bishop Lefebvre said the Vatican also was willing to recognize the juridical status of his Priestly Society of St. Pius X and accept the approximately 250 priests he has il licitly ordained. Econe is the site of the society’s major seminary. In return, the archbishop said, he would agree to accept a Vatican-appointed “visitator” for his society and call off his threat to ordain bishops, which would have technically signified a schism in the church. Father Giovanni d’Ercole, assistant director of the Vatican press office, said the idea of a personal prelature for the archbishop was “not excluded” from the dialogue. A personal prelature is a special-purpose jurisdiction headed by an Ordinary. A prelature is governed according to statutes laid down by the Holy See. Currently, the only personal prelature is Opus Dei. The Vatican offer was made in a letter dated July 28 from Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop Lefebvre said. He said he would discuss details of the agreement with Car dinal Ratzinger during a visit to Rome Oct. 15-20. Archbishop Lefebvre did not say who the apostolic visitator would be, but speculation has centered on Car dinal Hyacinthe Thiandoum of Dakar, Senegal, who was Archbishop Lefebvre’s successor as head of the Dakar Archdiocese. ecumenism and religious liberty, and in recent years has increased his criticism of the church in those areas. During his press conference, Archbishop Lefebvre in dicated that his basic position on these issues had not changed. He was quoted in news reports as saying: “There is no question of giving up our doctrinal line.” Father Giuseppe Rottoli, the local head of Archbishop Lefebvre’s community in Albano, outside Rome, said Oct. 4 that he did not consider restoration of the pre-Vatican II Tridentine rite a Vatican “concession” because “no one ever had the right to prohibit its use.” The rite was replaced in 1970 by the new order of Mass ap proved by Pope Paul VI, but Archbishop Lefebvre’s group has never recognized the new order’s legitimacy. In 1984 Pope John Paul II decided that local bishops can allow the old rite under special circumstances, which in clude a pledge of support for Vatican II reforms by those re questing permission to use the Tridentine service. At the Vatican Oct. 5, a spokesman for Cardinal Ratz inger said the cardinal had no immediate comment on the reported agreement. An earlier Vatican statement said a one-hour meeting Ju ly 14 between Cardinal Ratzinger and Archbishop Lefebvre had occurred in “an atmosphere of open and sincere dialogue,” and that both parties had agreed not to make further statements about the meeting. The meeting was considered a breakthrough in the longstanding dispute. Cardinal Thiandoum said he had maintained contact with Archbishop Lefebvre, meeting with him more than 30 times in recent years in an effort to promote a reconciliation. The cardinal said he had written Archbishop Lefebvre a letter a few days earlier to congratulate him on the 40th anniver sary of his ordination as bishop, and express his hope that “we can find a Christian solution to this drama.” Another Vatican official, a longtime observer of the case, said the agreement, if confirmed, would represent a “vic tory by the church” in avoiding a schism. It would also probably “cause some bitterness, at the very least” among SURVIVOR — A woman sits on the rubble that was once her home as rescue workers try to locate missing family members in Medellin, Columbia. Hundreds were left homeless after a landslide raced down a mountainside on the outskirts of the city. (NC photo from UP!i- Reuter) French bishops, he said — especially if Archbishop Lefeb vre’s seminaries are to be recognized as legitimate, as some reports have said. Many of Archbishop Lefebvre’s seminarians are F’rench. 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