Usurpation of Papal Authority
Persons who usurp or retain, personally or through others, goods and rights pertaining to the Roman Church, automatically incur excommunication reserved in a special manner to the Apostolic See. (Canon 2345)
Usurpation of Papal Authority by the Traditionalists is a common crime against the Apostolic See. Certain actions are reserved exclusively to the Roman Pontiff. Some of these will be enumerated below.
Reconciling Schismatic Bishops and Priests
All persons who presume to receive orders from a prelate who has been excommunicated, suspended or interdicted by a declaratory or condemnatory sentence, or from a notorious apostate, heretic or schismatic automatically incur suspensions a divinis reserved to the Apostolic See. Any person who has been ordained in good faith by such men, forfeits the right to exercise the order thus received until he obtains dispensation from the prohibition. (Canon 2372) This dispensation is reserved exclusively to the Pope, who will decide how these men can return to the Church.
This has happened in several cases.
More recently Mark Pivarunas, head of the CMRI reconciled an Orthdox bishop with the Traditionalist Church.
