[dsc]

"Who are in fact schismatics who separated themselves from the Roman church."

Ummm...looks to me more like they separated themselves from the Church's modernist attackers.

They will soon be regularized, and where will that leave all those who have spent decades calumniating them?

[kawaii]

it has nothing to do with their reasons, nor whether they will be regularized.

rather than try to reform the church from within they separated from it.

that is the way of the schismatic (and frankly the protestant;i dont like this church ill make my own).

Christ founded one church. he never inteded for Christians to be separated from one another.

1Cr 14:33 For God is not [the author] of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

[marshmallow]

They will soon be regularized, and where will that leave all those who have spent decades calumniating them?

The chances of SSPX reuniting in toto is a number not unadjacent to zero. Any regularization, should it occur, will split SSPX down the middle. Williamson has zero interest in submitting to Rome. Instead, there will be occasional breakaways by those who want back in. FSSP... the recent Institute of the Good Shepherd in France......maybe more in the future.

Not that this really matters. They won't be regularized any time soon. And the chances decrease with every passing day. As Fellay said the other day, this is far bigger than just the rite of Mass.

The malcontent mentality is now too strongly established and will always find something which is unsatisfactory.

[BlackElk]

IF Benedict XVI "regularizes" the SSPX schismatics and their excommunicated leaders with the poisonously anti-Catholic mouths such as DeMallerais and Williamson and Fellay (who presumes to dictate terms, no less, as to what would be necessary for the excommunicated to accept "re-communication"), then this Catholic and most others will note the papal authority of Benedict XVI as we (unlike SSPX) noted the papal authority of John Paul the Great and submit to that authority rather than set ourselves up as independent ecclesiastical authorities self-appointed and self-annointed to sit in judgment upon the See of Peter and its serial occupants.

It will leave the schismatics and excommunicati in a position of putative rebellion against the Church as they were moments before the original LeFebvrite consecrations of rebels as bishops and it will leave those who have continued in faithful obedience to the Holy See in, ummmm, obedience to the Holy See.

Of course, it is a big IF, oft gushily and enthusiastically reported by sycophants of the schism (like those who dishonestly claim that the papal excommunications of the SSPX ringleaders and papal declaration of SSPX as in schism were somehow rooted in Mass rubrics and publish an endless series of articles claiming that B-XVI will be siding with the schism any day now). Of course, they may be confusing B-XVI with "Pope Michael" of North Dakota or Kansas or wherever, a former SSPXer who, having apostasized from Catholicism to SSPX further apostasized from SSPX to Pope Michaelism or whatever.

Do you regard Pope John Paul II, who excommunicated SSPX leaders and declared their cult a schism one of "the Church's modernist attackers????" Catholics want to know. You are far more sensible on matters political like Ann Coulter.