I'm very pleased with Bishop Fellay's statement. I have some experience of Bishop Williamson and expect him to continue to lead a remnant that will eventually elect him as Pope if not some sort of placeholder. The longer the SSPX stays away the longer they become something other than Roman Catholic and the more difficult it becomes for the Roman Catholic Church to come back to her roots and her senses in every diocese and parish. We have need of each other.
Dear Siobhan,
"I'm very pleased with Bishop Fellay's statement."
Well, I won't say that I was displeased with it.
I just don't know that it means anything that I hope it would mean.
I'd love to see the SSPX back in the Catholic Church. I hope this means that that will come about. However, I note that the meeting was all of 35 minutes. To my mind, that means that a very simple solution was discussed and agreed to, or really, only the most general and vague framework was discussed.
Has the Vatican released their view of the conversation? I'm a little more adept at reading vaticanese (which means, really, that I'm entirely not adept at reading sspxese).
sitetest
"The longer the SSPX stays away the longer they become something other than Roman Catholic and the more difficult it becomes for the Roman Catholic Church to come back to her roots and her senses in every diocese and parish. We have need of each other."
I would be in agreement with the above thought had it been written:
The longer the SSPX stays away the longer they become the only remnant of the Roman Rite Catholic Church, and the less likely the post-councilor church will move away from the presence of and worship of false gods pagan idols on consecrated and sacred ground in every diocese and parish. The new church must embrace the presence of the SSPX to sustain its credibility as the One Holy and Apostolic Church.