Brethren, Peace and Good to all of you in Jesus Christ, this Saturday of St. Francis Xavier, a Saturday ad Maiorem Gloria Dei.
As many of you probably know, the SSPX rejected Vatican's doctrinal preamble. The SSPX's leader, Bishop Bernard Fellay, stated that "The proposal that I will make in the next few days to the Roman authorities and their response in turn will enable us to evaluate our remaining options. And whatever the result of these talks may be, the final document that will have been accepted or rejected will be made public," he said.
If you are a regular reader of this blog - and I thank you for it - you'll find Bp. Fellay's expressions come as no surprise. As for the expression themselves, and the hedging, and the promise to continue talking without really giving up anything, I've seen this before: in the Iranian Regime. At the root of their hubris we find a capital sin: prodigious pride.
I still believe in miracles of conversion, and pray that the SSPX comes to its senses and returns to full communion with the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church of Rome. Yet, for conversion to happen, there has to be a recognition of error and guilt, repentance, and healing and so far I haven't heard anything from the SSPX remotedly approaching these attitudes. Everything coming from the SSPX points at a final severance from the Church and schism.