Open Letters
The Right of the Faithful to Appeal Directly to the Judgment of the Pope
The holy Roman Church holds
the highest and complete primacy and spiritual power over the universal
Catholic Church which she truly and humbly recognizes herself to have received
with fullness of power from the Lord Himself in Blessed Peter, the chief or
head of the Apostles whose successor is the Roman Pontiff. And just as to
defend the truth of Faith she is held before all other things, so if any
questions shall arise regarding faith they ought to be defined by her
judgment. And to her anyone burdened with affairs pertaining to the
ecclesiastical world can appeal; and in all cases looking forward to an
ecclesiastical examination, recourse can be had to her judgment.
Second Council of Lyons,
Denz. 466
And since the Roman Pontiff
is at the head of the universal Church by the divine right of apostolic
primacy, We teach and declare also that he is the supreme judge of the
faithful, and that in all cases pertaining to ecclesiastical examination
recourse can be had to his judgment.
First Vatican Council, Denz.
1830
Letter
to Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades, in reply to his letter of December 15, 2007, once
again requesting from him that he fulfill the obligations of his office as our
local ordinary and render a formal judgment regarding the claims of Ss. Peter
& Paul Roman Catholic Mission - that we possess, by virtue of our baptism
as Catholics, the inviolable right to the ecclesiastical traditions of the
Roman Rite, particularly the right to the “received and approved” traditional
Roman Rite of the Mass.
Letter to Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades – January 2, 2008
Letter
from Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades in response to seeing a copy of the letter sent to
Mr. Robert Charlton
Letter from Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades – December 15, 2007
Letter
sent to Mr. Robert Charlton, the coordinator for the indult community in Harrisburg,
PA, in reply to his letter informing the members of Ss. Peter & Paul Roman
Catholic Mission of Bishop Rhoades’ establishing the Mater Dei Community, a
parish for indult Catholics in the Diocese of Harrisburg.
Letter to Mr. Robert Charlton – November 25, 2007
Letter
to Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades, July 31, 2007, in response both to the publication
of the news article, Bishop hopes decree heals rift, in the York Daily Record July 26, 2007, in which
the members of Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission are referred to as being
“schismatic,” and to the publication of the Motu Proprio of Pope Benedict XVI, Summorum
Pontificum, which confirmed the correctness of our claim in everyone of the
open letters that the traditional rite of the Mass is not illegal.
Letter to Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades – July 31, 2007
Reply
from Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades to the letter dated December 20, 2006
Reply from Bishop Rhoades - December 27, 2006
Letter
to Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades on December 20, 2006 requesting the sacrament of
Confirmation in the traditional Roman Rite for the children of Ss. Peter and Paul
Roman Catholic Mission.
Letter to Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades – December 20, 2006
Letter
to Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades in response to his November 18th letter.
Reply to Bishop Rhoades - December 19, 2005
Reply
from Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades to the letter dated October 31, 2005
Reply from Bishop Rhoades - November 18, 2005
Letter
to Bishop Kevin Rhoades clarifying our position and concerns of conscience.
Letter to
Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades - October 31, 2005
Letter
to Bishop-elect Kevin C Rhoades dated October 17, 2004, informing him of Saints
Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Mission and its purpose.
Letter to Bishop-elect Kevin C. Rhoades - October 17, 2004
Letter
written to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith, in response to the March 12, 2004 letter from Msgr.
Perl, Secretary of the Pontifical Commission of Ecclesia Dei, as a second
appeal for a formal opinion regarding the charge of doctrinal errors by the
members of SS. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Mission.
Second
Letter to Cardinal Ratzinger - March 24, 2004
Letter
from Rev. Msgr. Camille Perl, Secretary of the Pontifical Commission of
Ecclesia Dei, to D. M. Drew and Saints Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Mission in
response to the February 7, 2004 letter to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.
Msgr.
Perl Letter - March 12, 2004
Letter
to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of
the Faith, regarding the charges of heresy and schism made by Fr. William J.
King and Bishop Dattilo.
Letter to Cardinal
Ratzinger - February 7, 2004
Comments
on the Court Pharisee, a response to the February 3, 2004 letter of Rev.
William King.
Comments
on the Court Pharisee - February 3, 2004
Personal
Letter of Fr. William J. King to D. M. Drew February 3, 2004
Letter to D. M. Drew - February 3, 2004
Comments
on a Canon Liar, a response to the publication of Rev. King.
Comments on a Canon Liar - January 2004
Letter
to Bishop Dattilo, 1-12-04, offering him the opportunity to consecrate Saints
Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Chapel.
Since Bishop Dattilo refused this invitation, the Chapel was exorcised,
blessed and dedicated to the restoration and preservation of the Ecclesiastical
Traditions of the Roman Rite by a Catholic priest.
Letter to Bishop Dattilo - January 12, 2004
Publication
of Rev. William King in the diocesan newspaper, The Catholic Witness,
and re-printed in many parish bulletins, charging Saints Peter and Paul Roman
Catholic Mission members as being heretics and schismatics, and claiming that
the traditional Roman Rite, to be “legitimate or truly Catholic” must have “the
required permission of the diocesan bishop.” January 9, 2004
Publication of Reverend King - January 9, 2004
Letter
to Tracey Trott to answer the claims made by Rev. King's warning to her that
the members of Saints Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Mission were in schism and that attendance at the Masses
did not fulfill the Sunday obligation.
Our letter to Tracey Trott was to correct the statements made by Fr.
William King.
Letter to Tracey Trott - July 10, 2003
Letter
from Rev. William J. King, JCD, the judicial vicar for the Diocese of
Harrisburg, was faxed to Tracey Trott in response to her inquiry regarding her
son attending Saints Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Mission.
Reverend William J. King Letter - June 16, 2003
Reply
to a Conservative Canon Lawyer, A Defense of a Catholic’s Right to the
Ecclesiastical Traditions of the Roman Rite.
This is a reply to the arguments of Rev. John Huels, OSM, JCD that the
traditional Roman Rite was illegal.
This paper was written in November 2001. The arguments in this paper
were submitted to Bishop Dattilo by Msgr. Mercurio Fregapane who requested a
formal opinion of the Bishop regarding the doctrinal correctness of the
paper. For this, Msgr. Fregapane was
summarily retired. No response was ever
made by Bishop Dattilo. Fr. John Huels
was subsequently exposed as a homosexual predator and left the priesthood and
his teaching position as assistant dean for canon law at St. Paul University in
Ottawa.
Reply to
a Conservative Canon Lawyer - 2001
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