The Holy Father named today Jean-Louis Bruguès, O.P., Bishop of Angers (Maine-et-Loire, near the Vendée), France, new Secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education.
Who is Archbishop Bruguès? This French Dominican was a professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, for many years, before being named Bishop in 2000.
Some clues regarding his episcopal mind may be found in his reception letter to the faithful of his diocese on Summorum Pontificum, in which he faithfully quoted the legal rights recognized by the motu proprio, but also said:
Some clues regarding his episcopal mind may be found in his reception letter to the faithful of his diocese on Summorum Pontificum, in which he faithfully quoted the legal rights recognized by the motu proprio, but also said:
When Pope Benedict XVI received me last June 2, I informed him of my personal misgivings, as well as those of a great part of you, regarding a text which had been spoken of for many months.
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We had anticipated, in some way, the present evolution by welcoming, since two years ago, a stable group of faithful attached to the celebration according to the Missal of 1962, in the Church of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires d’Angers. I can nevertheless say from this moment that I will not open personal parishes.
