[patent]

Would granting an annulment be sufficient? That is done by a tribunal, of course, and the SSPX has established one to do just that.

It's certainly evidence of an intent to build a separate church. Negotiating an apsotolic administration with Rome is evidence pointing away from that.

Well, Rome offered the AA, the SSPX refused it. I don’t think you can consider an offer from Rome to be anything with regard to the intent of the SSPX. You can consider their refusal to accept it, but that is more evidence of an intent to build a separate Church.

As to continued negotiations, I do consider that a good sign, but I note that the various Orthodox Churches are also negotiating, as are various Lutherans, etc. They certainly have separate churches (depending on how you define Church for the Lutherans). In part, that is one reason why the negotiations are necessary.

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[ultima ratio]

Once more you are talking through your hat. The rejection of Rome's offer was not so that SSPX might build a separate Church. It rejected the bribe because it wishes to talk substantively about real theological and doctrinal problems and Rome fears to do this. Rome knows its policies are predicated on trickery and half-truths, that the Novus Ordo Mass is rife with deficiencies. But it cannot afford to look into any of this too closely. The SSPX rightly considers that this dishonesty augurs poorly for the future. It is not convinced Rome has given up its revolutionary intention to destroy all Tradition going back 1500 years. Until this ambition is officially renounced, SSPX knows it risks its own disintegration should it prematurely succumb to a charm offensive.