Archbishop Noia appointed to the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei

June 26, 2012: Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday appointed Archbishop Augustine Di Noia, OP, to the post of vice president of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei.” The appointment of a high-ranking prelate to this position is a sign of the Holy Father’s pastoral solicitude for traditionalist Catholics in communion with the Holy See and his strong desire for the reconciliation of those traditionalist communities not in union with the See of Peter, stated a note of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The president of the commission is the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal William J. Levada.
The Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” was established in 1988 by Blessed John Paul II to facilitate “full ecclesial communion of priests, seminarians, religious communities or individuals until now linked in various ways to the Fraternity founded by Archbishop Lefebvre” and to promote the pastoral care of the faithful attached to the ancient Latin liturgical tradition of the Catholic Church. In 2009, the Pontifical Commission was structurally linked to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to address the doctrinal issues in the ongoing dialogue between the Holy See and the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X.