[JohnnyZ]

It's my understanding that Rome is holding out her hand and all that the SSPX has to do is grasp it. I pray that they do.

[bornacatholic]

The sspx thinks of itself as the one with authority. They probably think the Pope should publicly apologize and do penance and then they might let Rome reunite with the real Church - the sspx.

This has gone on too long and I see no desire on the part of the sspx to quit its schism. If they do recant and renounce their schism, their followers will go ape. As a consequence of their crazy claims, the sspx has led its followers too far from Rome for any reunion in our lifetimes. Why "unite" with evil? will be the reaction of their followers

Their spiritual father said the Holy See and the Hierarchy was occupied by antiChrists. In the mind of their followers nothing much has changed

[dsc]

"It's my understanding that Rome is holding out her hand and all that the SSPX has to do is grasp it. I pray that they do."

Sure. All they have to do is agree to concelebrate the Novus Ordo.

Sort of like two friends who fight because one commits adultery with the other's wife. The adulterer says, "Let's stop this fighting. I'll shake your hand on the condition that I get to keep diddling your wife." Then the wronged husband is castigated for declining.