[NYer]

It’s interesting to note that they describe these upcoming sessions as “meetings” or “doctrinal discussions” (entretiens doctrinaux), while Schönborn calls them “negotiations”.Since the full reintegration of the SSPX is at stake, the word “negotiations” seems more suited to these sessions.

[NYer]

Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, one of the four readmitted, said the bishops had no intention of changing their views in these sessions.” No, absolutely not,” he said. “We do not change our positions, but we have the intention of converting Rome, that is, to lead Rome towards our positions.”

Bishop Tissier de Mallerais

[nickcarraway]

Last time I checked, Pope Benedict is still the pope , and Cardinal Schönborn is still just the cardinal who spent most the summer attacking the Pope.

[marshmallow]

Both Schonborn and Tissier de Mallerais need to zip it. Let the meetings progress in peace and good will, free from speculation and public posturing in the secular press. Both seem to want to put a turd in the punchbowl, if you’ll pardon the crude vernacular.

[B Knotts]

This includes such fundamental conclusions of the Second Vatican Council as its positions on Judaism, other non-Christian religions, other Christian churches and on religious freedom as a basic human right,

Which merely begs the question: what are those conclusions? What conclusions on these questions are allowable, or even possible?

For instance, can there be a "basic human right" to believe falsehood? We can say that for prudential reasons, a political right to do so ought to exist, but a "human right" is something different.

[ELS]

From Rorate Caeli:

As we had mentioned earlier today, the Holy See Press Office has confirmed that the doctrinal talks between the Holy See and the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X (FSSPX / SSPX) will begin in mid-October.

"The first meeting, which will mark the beginning of the dialogue with the Lefebvrists, will take place in the second half of October," Father Federico Lombardi, spokesman of Pope Benedict XVI, said [today].(La Croix)

[TASMANIANRED]

I don’t entirely disagree with them.

[jjm2111]

Bleh. I so don’t like the SSPX. Mostly for their position on Jews and secondly for their lack of humility and obedience to Mother Church.