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Maybe he has become more orthodox with time.

But I think some of your facts are not quite straight, according to the GA Bulletin (which is searchable off the Archdiocesan website). The FSSP apostolate began in 1993, the same year Donoghue was appointed. They began offering Mass in at least 4 places, not just once a month at Sacred Heart. By 1996 they were borrowing a local Maronite Church for Mass every Sunday, and in 1999 they got their own building. The contemporary articles seem very positive:

The St. Francis de Sales Latin Mass community originated in 1995 when a group led by Joe Fradet asked Archbishop John F. Donoghue to consider the regular celebration of the traditional Latin Mass in the archdiocese.
"We met with the archbishop who gave the Mass and the community his blessing," said Fradet. "We are so fortunate to have an archbishop who has been a devoted guardain of the Latin Mass."

- GA Bulletin, Feb. 12 1998.

His public positions over the last few years (including support for Terri Schiavo and the firm directive in Worth to Receive the Lamb) are quite orthodox.

Abp. Gregory has some big shoes to fill.

Abp. Gregory has some big shoes to fill.

After his role in the sodomite cover-up, Gregory should have been sent straight to jail (or the Catholic equivalent), not promoted to a palace in Atlanta.
Just when Donoghue was starting to clean out the trash, the pope diverts a sewer into the city. What happened to prudence?

I left Atlanta in 1994 and there was not a regular FSSP mass. As I recall, they had a Tridentine Mass a couple of times a year at Sacred Heart Church in downtown.

The indult I was refering to was not the FSSP, it was a diocesan priest who didn't know how to properly say the Tridentine Mass.