![]() In this case, Francis said that people can be absolved by SSPX priests and that, as they say, is that. ![]() It’s better when they do things in a way that make things clear, with all the i’s dotted. However, Popes can do what they want in this regard. In this case there is no document that I’m aware of that explicitly grants faculties to the priests of the SSPX to hear confessions and to absolve. Those faculties are demonstrable with a document saying that Fr. This is a little odd, because it was not really a formal grant of faculties in the usual and expected way to the priests of the SSPX, as when a bishop grants faculties to a priest to receive sacramental confessions. That provision was extended beyond the “Year of Mercy” in the 2016 Apostolic Letter Misericordia et misera. On 8 December 2015, Francis told the Catholic faithful that for the Holy Year of Mercy they could go to priests of the SSPX for the Sacrament of Penance and that they could be validly absolved. The SSPX is an association of the faithful. 298 §1, which are, for example, when clerics or laity want to strive with common effort for foster a more perfect life, promote public worship, etc. 299 §1 says that by private agreement among themselves, the faithful have the right to constitute associations for the purposes mentioned in can. Hopefully one day they will be set up and recognized formally as a, say, Personal Prelature or some variant. ![]() Their “association of the faithful” does not now have canonical recognition. The SSPX does not have formal canonical status other than they are exercising a canonical right to associate with each other. The SSPX (technically Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Santi Pii X) is a priestly Fraternity or Society of priests.
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