Note to self, save this quote to serve it back as crow when Pope Benedict XVI makes his decision to clarify the excom issue and invites all priests everywhere to offer the 1962 Missal Traditional Latin Mass.
This statement is just as bold as the loud predictions, upon the death of John Paul II, that Cardinal Ratzinger had absolutely no chance at becoming Pope.
So sad, too bad...
The mini-popes of FR couldn't find their backside with a map. They'll be strangely silent when BXVI blows all their little theories out of the water.
Since you seem too mired in inaccuracy to remember, my Bishop Thomas Doran has told his priests that they are all welcome to celebrate Tridentine Masses and he does so himself on occasion as well as confirming Catholics in the Tridentine rite at St. Mary's Oratory in Rockford. A decision by Benedict XVI to grant a universal indult will be welcomed in my home and in my diocese for the sake of the CATHOLIC faithful who are deprived of the Tridentine by their diocesan bishops who also seem not to get the message although they have yet to do "do it yourself" consecrations of bishops not chosen by the pope.
I will admit that it is not probable that a good pope like Benedict XVI would make the schizzies run the gauntlet as I would but he is pope and he gets to make the decisions.
There ios NOTHING about the excommunications and declaration of schism of SSPX that needs clarifying. JP the Great did those in Ecclesia Dei in 1988 and never relented. As with most schizzies, you want to see one pope contradict another to undermine papal authority.
Oh well, we can count on Williamson as a continuing icon of schism. Does his nibs also believe that the Holocaust never occurred? Do you? That the earth is flat? Do you?