Pope Benedict XVI Issues Motu Proprio Reorganizing Ecclesia Dei Commission

(08 Jul 09 - RV) Pope Benedict XVI today issued an Apostolic Letter motu proprio reorganizing the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, which was instituted, on July 2, 1988, in the wake of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s illicit ordination of four bishops to carry on the work of his Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X. We have this report...