This may be as close as you will get. It comes from Zenit News Agency, an international news agency whose mission is: "Our mission is to provide objective coverage of events, documents and issues emanating from or concerning the Catholic Church."
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ZENIT - The World Seen From Rome
Code: ZE05082906
Date: 2005-08-29
Pope Meets Successor of Lefebvre in Search of Communion
In a "Climate of Love for the Church," Says Vatican Spokesman
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, AUG. 29, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI received Bishop Bernard Fellay, who succeeded Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre as head of the Society of St. Pius X, with the "desire to arrive at perfect communion."
Today's meeting took place in the apostolic palace of Castel Gandolfo, in response to a request from Bishop Fellay, reported Vatican spokesman Joaquín Navarro Valls.
"The Pope was accompanied by Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, president of the Pontifical Commission 'Ecclesia Dei,'" the spokesman said.
"Ecclesia Dei," the Holy See's Web page explains, was "instituted by John Paul II with the 'Motu proprio' promulgated on July 2, 1988, following the schismatic gesture of illegitimate episcopal ordinations carried out by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in Ecône."
Navarro Valls said, "The meeting unfolded in a climate of love for the Church and the desire to arrive at perfect communion." His communiqué added: "Being aware of the difficulties, willingness was expressed to advance by degrees according to reasonable times."
Attached to Holy See
Later, Bishop Fellay revealed in a statement that "the meeting lasted some 35 minutes in a serene atmosphere."
"The audience was the occasion for the Society to manifest that it has always and always will be attached to the Holy See, Eternal Rome," said the bishop.
"We recalled the series of difficulties already known in a spirit of great love for the Church," he added.
"The Society of St. Pius X prays that the Holy Father will find the strength to put an end to the crisis of the Church, 'restoring all things in Christ,'" concluded the bishop's communiqué.
Previously, Bishop Fellay told his group's DICI press agency that, if he were to meet with Benedict XVI, he would request two things.
First is the possibility for all priests to celebrate the Tridentine Mass without special permission from the local bishop, as is now required. Second is the "recanting [of] the decree of excommunication related to the consecrations" of four bishops in the Society.
As an aside: I'm furious about what is about to happen in Buffalo, but there seems nothing to be done to stop these bishops with their "five year plans" and cheery Maoist slogans.
With the destruction of the Sacred Heart statue in the Archdiocese of Boston I am convinced that Buffalo, Rochester, Boston and Albany are firmly in the hands of the minions of satan.
And now back to gratitude that my friend Jayne's grandmother is okay in the Garden District in N.O.
Also, time to invoke St. Patrick, St. Columba, and St. Hilda against the plague of snakes, alligators and other pests with which the people in Louisiana, Miss. and Alabama may have to cope.