[sitetest]

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).


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[Siobhan]

I haven't seen the Holy See's account of the meeting. But our dear Holy Father is wise and careful. If baby steps need to be taken, he would do that. I suspect that behind the scenes much has been discussed leading up to this public meeting. There may even have been an exchange of documents of some kind -- responses, plans, ideas. I don't know. But I do expect the most careful orchestration, and I believe the SSPX announcement is amazingly restrained for them and even hopeful.

[TradicalRC]

They'd rather spend their time spouting bumper sticker slogans like "Jesus was a liberal" or "Jesus was a socialist." Note the use of the past tense "was" for a person who is still alive. :-)

Really? Then clue me in, I've found many of the Vatican pronouncements to be so vague that whenever they get interpreted one way, some official spokesperson states dismissively that they meant something quite different. Clarification seems to be a leisure sport in Rome these days.