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Powers of the "Ecclesia Dei" Commission
1. The faculty of granting to all who seek it the use of the Roman Missal according to the 1962 edition, and according to the norms proposed in December 1986 by the Commission of Cardinals "ad hoc ipsum constituta", the diocesan bishop having been informed;
2. a. The faculty of dispensing from the irregularities listed in Canon 1044, # 1, nn. 1 and 2, according to the terms of the Motu Proprio "Ecclesia Dei";
b. The faculty of validating the marriages performed in the presence of these same priests, null on account of the defect of form required by Canon 1108;
3. a. The faculty of erecting the Priestly Fraternity of S. Peter as a clerical society of Apostolic Life with pontifical right, keeping its particular characteristics as referred to in the Motu Proprio "Ecclesia Dei", n. 6,a and of approving the constitutions of the said fraternity;
b. The faculty of erecting at Wigratzbad in the diocese of Augsburg the seminary of the Fraternity of S. Peter, with the previous consent of the diocesan bishop;
4. The faculty of canonically erecting as institutes of consecrated life or as societies of apostolic life those communities which are already in existence and which are bound to the ancient liturgical forms and discipline of the Latin tradition, this with the consent of the Prefect of the Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes;
5. The faculty of erecting confraternities of lay people with the same outlook who, after fitting preparation and the accustomed period of approbation, seek to become institutes of consecrated life or societies of apostolic life;
6. The faculty of exercising the authority of the Holy See over the same societies and confraternities until otherwise provided.
The Supreme Pontiff, in an audience granted to the Cardinal President of the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei" on 18th October 1988, deigned to grant the faculties enumerated above...
Rome, at S. Peter's, 18th October 1988
AUGUSTINUS Card. Mayer
President
(See also the article from this edition of Oriens: The history of the invisible norms)
