6.
Taking
account of the importance and complexity of the problems referred to in this
document, by virtue of my Apostolic Authority I decree the following:
a) a Commission
is instituted whose task it will be to collaborate with the bishops, with the
Departments of the Roman Curia and with the circles concerned, for the purpose
of facilitating full ecclesial communion of priests, seminarians, religious
communities or individuals until now linked in various ways to the Fraternity
founded by Mons. Lefebvre, who may wish to remain united to the Successor Peter
in the Catholic Church, while preserving their spiritual and liturgical
traditions, in the light of the Protocol signed on 5 May last by Cardinal
Ratzinger and Mons. Lefebvre;
b) this Commission
is composed of a Cardinal President and other members of the Roman Curia, in a
number that will be deemed opportune according to circumstances;
c) moreover, respect
must everywhere be shown for the feelings of all those who are attached to the
Latin liturgical tradition, by a wide and generous application of the
directives already issued some time ago by the Apostolic See for the use of the
Roman Missal according to the typical edition of 1962.(9)
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