Apostolic Visitation of FSSP Augurs Ill for the Latin Mass, by Carina Benton

By Carina Benton, OnePeterFive, Oct. 4, 2024

The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP) released a statement on Sept. 27 announcing that it had recently been informed by the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life of the “opening of an apostolic visitation of the Fraternity.” According to the statement, the Prefect of the Dicastery, Cardinal João Braz de Aviz, emphasized to the FSSP Superior General John Berg and his assistants during a meeting in Rome that the visit “does not originate in any problems of the Fraternity,” but is instead intended to enable the Dicastery to better understand the FSSP, “so as to provide [them] with any help [they] may need.”

The Dicastery issued its own statement signed on Sept. 30 confirming that it had announced an apostolic visitation of the FSSP in order to “deepen the knowledge of the Society of Apostolic Life of pontifical right and to offer it the most appropriate help in the path of following Christ.” The Dicastery’s mandate, as outlined in Article 121 of the apostolic constitution Praedicate Evangelium (promulgated by His Holiness Francis in 2022) and reiterated in the Dicastery’s statement, is to “promote, encourage and regulate the practice of the evangelical counsels, how they are lived out in the approved forms of consecrated life and all matters concerning the life and activity of Societies of Apostolic Life.” …

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