[nickcarraway]

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[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Very interesting article. This is the first I've heard anything about this.

[FBDinNJ]

I have my doubts as to the possibility of the SSPX ever fully rejoining the Church. They have a habit of saying or doing something stupid right before reconcilliation talks. Nothing, however, is inpossible, especially in the light of the Campos declaration, which many people doubted could have ever happened. The SSJV in Campos, Brazil are now pretty much an autonomous rite in the Catholic Church (I guess their situation would be similar to that of the Byzantines or Maronites) where they are not subject to their local Roman Rite Bishop, but instead to their own "Traditionalist" Bishop.

I think the Church's current position on the SSPX is definitely a bad one, especially because the SSPX is one of the few groups left out there that try to fully adhere to the Church's teaching on moral matters. The church's whole position of shunning schismatic groups (such as the SSPX), while fully embracing heretical groups is insane.

I have heard that one of the main motivations for reconcilliation talks with the SSPX is that of money. The SSPX, especially in France, supposedly has train-loads of money which it has at its disposle.

There's a very interesting article at Una Voce's web page, which was written by a SSPX priest, and talks about this situation whole situation of reconciliation talks: Fr. Paul Aulagnier, SSPX on SSJV Reconciliation: A Victory for the Mass of Saint Pius V

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Look at how young these Bishops are! Certainly not old men clinging to a dying tradition!