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You need to read up on this. Some subordinates of the superior general complained to the prefect of Ecclesia Dei in the Vatican that Fr. Bisig would not permit them to concelebrate the Novus Ordo Mass. A handful of disgruntled priests, a distinct minority--and probably implanted for this very purpose--went over their superior's head and wrote a letter complaining to Rome. Within WEEKS Rome reacted, making the claim that the Indult had not intended that the priests of the FSSP might never concelebrate in another rite--though that had been the understanding of the Fraternity from the beginning.

In any case, the duly elected Superior General was fired, a new superior was appointed, and some seminary theologians were dismissed as well. It was an astonishingly quick and brutal put-down of traditional priests who had merely acted upon the understanding they believed they had had with Rome. And this came at a time when other Orders and seminaries were openly seething with dissent and corruption--yet were receiving not so much as a hint of disapproval from the Vatican.

The shock waves of that betrayal of the traditionalist's raison d'etre are still reverberating throughout the movement and is probably the real reason why the SSXP and Rome could not surmount their differences last year. The SSPX suspects the whole affair with FSSP was a set-up, particularly considering the speediness of the response by the Vatican--so notoriously slow to react in matters of even pressing importance.

So, somehow, the rights of SOME of the FSSP priests were denied because it was made clear that they and others were ALLOWED to say the normative Mass of the Church? Not required, mind you, but merely allowed. Thus, if Fr. Black says a Novus Ordo Mass, he will be harming somehow Fr. Brown who does not say the Novus Ordo Mass so long as both are FSSP priests, right? Assuming that absurdity to somehow be true, does the pope himself transgress Fr. Brown's rights when the pope says the Novus Ordo Mass? What sort of gibberish are you promoting? Do you understand that you cause many bishops, including many of the more conservative bishops, to suspect not merely you and your fellow SSPX schismatics but also Tridentine Catholics in communion with Rome to be suspect of harboring schismatic intent and why the bishops see such suspicions to be reasonable?