[Antoninus]

Antonius, see my earlier reply about "demands" made to the pope being impertinent by those trying to get out from under excommunication. It is rather like the poor insane condemned killer demanding to be let off the gallows. You will fin an answer implicit there.

Yet still a non-answer. One more time, this time with multiple choice answers:

If the Vatican and SSPX were to reconcile on exactly the terms the SSPX has demanded, would you:

A.) Denounce the decision as a mistake and capitulation, and spend time aggitating against SSPX priests coming into your diocese.

B.) Leave the Church in disgust.

C.) Shut your trap and accept the decision of the Vatican.

[sinkspur]

If the Vatican and SSPX were to reconcile on exactly the terms the SSPX has demanded, would you:

You keep asking this question as if it were going to happen.

The SSPX's demands are the same demands it has made for years. The Vatican will not accept those demands, especially that one which the SSPX would like to use to supplant the Novus Ordo by allowing priests to, willy-nilly, use the Tridentine Mass whenever they want.

Fellay and company had best accept what JPII is offering; they're not going to get a more conservative Pope on this issue. There are those in the Vatican who would walk away from the SSPX and leave it in its schism.

The SSPX is not going to bend. An idiot like Williamson, with his fascination with the Unabomber, will heel to no one, least of all the Pope.