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And he said this AFTER the excommunication had been lifted. What is going on with these people?

This should come as no surprise, and in the context of his relationship with the Jewish community, are representative of the theological issues potentially mainstreamed. A link to the SSPX's position on Jews, much longer text at the source. This is an issue Pope Benedict may wish to deal with at some point in time.

THE MYSTERY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN HISTORY
1st--[Judaism] called upon itself the blood of Christ as a curse.
2nd--Judaism is inimical to all nations in general, and in a special manner to Christian nations.
3rd--If the unrepentant Jewish people are disposed by God to be a theological enemy, the status of this opposition must be universal, inevitable, and terrible

Universal, because it must extend to all nations. Wherever Christendom extends
Christendom and Jewry are destined inevitably to meet everywhere without reconciliation or mixing
terrible enmity, because it is theological… They only perpetuate what they did once to Christ.

4th--the world has been subjected to two truly opposite forces: the Jewish force and the Christian
5th--only protection of the Gentile people against enslaving itself to the material superiority of the Jewish people is the Catholic life
6th-- Catholics cannot hate the Jewish people, cannot persecute them or prevent them to live, nor disturb them in their private practice of their laws and customs…Catholics are not to enter into commercial, social, nor political relations which are bound hypocritically to seek the ruin of Christendom. Jews must not live together with Christians
7th-- In the wandering and pitiable life of the Jewish people one must discover the Christian mystery… Ever since [the Crucifixion], similar insults have been visited upon the Jewish people as a chastisement and penalty for its deed.
The Jewish and Christian Peoples
The Catholic Church’s teaching is that they should neither be eliminated from among us (as antisemitism seeks) nor given equality of rights, which leads to their superiority (as is advocated by liberalism or philosemitism).
The Catholic Church teaches that it must not be exterminated (for the Jewish people bears the mark of Cain given it by God so no one would kill it) nor frequented (for God warns of its danger). As once they treated Christ, ever since, to persecute Christianity is their theological preoccupation.

And he said this AFTER the excommunication had been lifted. What is going on with these people?

There are some among them for whom reconciliation with Rome is a fate worse than death. The prairie dogs are now sticking their heads up. I wonder if they'll get whacked.