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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.

Last time I checked, you were not the Pope. I'm assuming you have a "source" who has a line to Rome, but unless that source is Castrillon-Hoyos or Ratzinger or the Pope himself, I dare say that your guess is as good as the rest of ours when it comes to this question.

Fellay and company had best accept what JPII is offering;

Here we agree.

they're not going to get a more conservative Pope on this issue.

I like how you threw "on this issue" in there. I don't presume to speak for the Holy Spirit, so once again, your words are less than authoritative on this question too.

There are those in the Vatican who would walk away from the SSPX and leave it in its schism.

Sure, just as there are those at the Vatican who would like to get rid of priestly celibacy, ordain women and homosexuals, etc. In fact, they're probably the same people.

Cleary Antonius, narses (aka polycarp), and the others are of a sectarian mind. We can only pray and offer our suffering for them and all the persecutors of the Pope, whether on the left or the right.

I think this discussion is spent. Time to move on into the real storms, even if others flee into their private utopias and dreams of a yesterday which rejects the 'now' of the Gospel, the substance of Tradition which perdures. I don't say this to be sarcastic or harsh. It is truly painful to behold the persecutor's of the Holy Faith. The only "Voice" that speaks for the Church is the Holy Father and living magisterium. To miss that is to miss everything and to reject the cornerstone of the divine Builder.