[BlatherNaut]

What precisely is different with respect to the needs of the faithful in the time period corresponding to the Year of Mercy as compared to the decades prior?

The answer, obviously, is nothing.

The only logical conclusion to be drawn, therefore, is that the state of necessity to which the SSPX has long claimed recourse for its insistence that the Church supplies its priests with jurisdiction has always existed; i.e., their argument has always been valid.

Like it or not, the pope himself just confirmed it.

[Montana_Sam]

Faulty argument, isn't it?

The Year of Mercy is just that, and is based in Scripture. The argument that the jurisdiction exists beyond the declared license assumes some authority outside of the lineage of Peter. Nobody is safe making such a bad-faith assumption. I love the SSPX, but it, too, is subject to authority whether it likes it or not, and is not self-determining.

[piusv]

Until Francis and the Vatican address the doctrinal issues which was the real reason for an SSPX in the first place, this move rings hollow. I am concerned that this move will move the SSPX closer to reconciling with Rome with Rome having done NOTHING to address the real issues of Vatican II.