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The Remnant's Gaetano Masciullo has published a piece which in light of the SSPX consecrations puts a new interesting twist or perspective on the saga since 1988.
“[…]the behavior of Karol Wojtyła (later Pope John Paul II) when he was still Archbishop of Kraków is illuminating. Together with his auxiliary Juliusz Groblicki, he proceeded to clandestine priestly ordinations in favor of the persecuted Church in Czechoslovakia, despite the Holy See having forbidden the underground bishops of that country to carry out such ordinations. Wojtyła did not inform Rome in advance. He did not interpret such acts as a challenge to authority, but as a duty toward the faithful deprived of the sacraments.”
“Even more significant is the case of Cardinal Josyf Slipyj (1892–1984), head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, whose cause of beatification has recently been opened. He consecrated three bishops without pontifical mandate to guarantee the survival of his clandestine Church under the Soviet regime. Formally, this was an act contrary to the prevailing discipline. However, Paul VI, having learned of the facts, did not punish him. Such omission was not mere tolerance, but implicit recognition of the exceptional situation and of the salvific purpose of the act. One of the bishops consecrated, Lubomyr Husar, was later created cardinal by John Paul II.”
And frame this one up:
“The question is not whether there was material disobedience, but whether such disobedience was placed against the divine constitution of the Church or for its preservation in a context perceived as extraordinary.”