A press release from Father John Trigilio and the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy (slightly edited):
- Father John Trigilio, Jr., president of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy, a
national association of more than 500 priests and deacons, publicly repudiates
the Austrian Priests' Initiative's call to disobedience. Recently, Monsignor
Helmut Schüller gave an
interview to Catholic News Service in which he reiterated his group's
dissident agenda: making clerical celibacy optional, allowing Protestants and
divorced and remarried (without annulment) Catholics to receive Holy Communion,
accepting same-sex unions, and ordaining women to Holy Orders.
The confraternity, on the other hand, 'unequivocally and completely renews the sacred promise of obedience taken by every cleric. Orthodoxy — assenting to all magisterial teachings — and orthopraxy — obeying the lawful disciplines of church authority — are indispensible and inseparable to ordained ministry.'
The confraternity has fellow associations in Australia and the U.K., with more than 300 and 100 members, respectively. All three branches espouse fidelity to the Roman Pontiff and to the full deposit of faith as taught by the pope and bishops in union with him.
'It is incomprehensible how the Austrian Priests' Initiative can blame Rome for their dissent. Such an act of rebellion against Church doctrine is nothing less than heretical and rebellion against Church discipline is just plain schismatic.' Cont. Reading
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