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By Carol Glatz


Catholic News Service


VATICAN CITY
– The Vatican’s doctrinal office has asked the world’s bishops to be
vigilant over the activities of a “wayward movement” of members of the
Opus Angelorum church association.

The Vatican said the splinter movement was trying to revive practices
banned 18 years ago, including liturgical ceremonies that focus on
angels.

The organization, whose name is Latin for “work of angels,” was reformed
after a 1992 Vatican decree and today is a “public association of the
church in conformity with traditional doctrine and with the directives
of the Holy See,” wrote Cardinal William J. Levada, prefect of the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Archbishop Luis Ladaria
Ferrer, the congregation’s secretary.

The group “spreads devotion to the holy angels among the faithful,
exhorts them to pray for priests, and promotes love for Christ in his
Passion and union with it,” said the letter sent to the presidents of
the world’s bishops’ conferences.

The letter, dated Oct. 2, was released to journalists Nov. 4 and was
published the same day in the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano.

The letter said that after its successful normalization, Opus Angelorum
is in communion with the church, and “there are no remaining obstacles
of a doctrinal or disciplinary kind which would prevent local ordinaries
from receiving this movement into their dioceses and prompting its
development.”

But it said bishops should be aware that there are a certain number of
members, including priests who left or were expelled from the Order of
Canons Regular of the Holy Cross, who “have not accepted the norms given
by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and seek to restore
what, according to them, would be the ‘authentic Opus Angelorum.’ ”

The splinter movement “professes and practices all those things which were forbidden” by earlier Vatican documents, it said.

The congregation said that “very discrete propaganda in favor of this
wayward movement, which is outside of any ecclesial control, is taking
place, aimed at presenting it as if it were in full communion with the
Catholic Church.”

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