Rome and the SSPX: One Heck of an Opportunity

The Holy Father does not think in sound bytes or headlines. That may be the way of most people today — even many world leaders — but it is obviously not his way, for he knows how ephemeral these things are. His is too much the scholar, too much the student of history, and much too much a man of the Church to be preoccupied with all that. He will doubtless see to it that the crisis is “managed,” as the administrative jargon goes today, but that management will be secondary to the more important dogmatic and ecclesiastical realities at the heart of this matter.

I speak, of course, of the SSPX dialogue consequent on the lifting of the excommunications of the four bishops consecrated by Monsignor Lefebvre. As the firestorm over Bishop Williamson’s imprudences are being fanned to white heat by progressivists in the Church and anti-Christians outside it, there is talk of a dialogue between Rome and the Society. Both Cardinal Re (speaking for the Holy See) and Bishop Fellay (speaking for the SSPX) have expressed an eagerness for this. The recent note of the Secretariat of State, part of the “management” referred to above, also confirms this.

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