The rumour is circulating amongst the European priests: 4 bishops to be consecrated within a year's time?
Will they be consecrated with or without the permission of Rome?
If without, how can that be verified?
If the SSPX thought it necessary to have Rome ratify their General Chapter results, how could they not think it necessary to have the same insane Rome ratify their consecrations?
If I had to guess, and if this rumor is indeed true (or has any elements of truth to it, such as consecrating one or two more bishops instead of four, or having a new-rite bishop such as Schneider or Huonder to join in the consecration), the SSPX may be waiting until Francis leaves the papacy, and waiting to see who the next Pope will be, and how favorably disposed he is to both the SSPX and the TLM in general. If it were Erdo, things might be okay. If it were Tagle, things might not be okay.
They may want to see if it's going to be a worst-case scenario, and if they might have to press ahead and incur excommunication for consecrating a bishop without a papal mandate, IOW, 1988 all over again. (But I do have to wonder if Tagle, as "Pope John XXIV", would be as bold as to declare excommunication and schism, and strictly to enforce TC and that despicable "in due time" coda, with hundreds of thousands of screaming traditionalists of all stripes and a very,
very vocal Web presence. We didn't have that in 1988, when it was basically
The Angelus and Radko Jansky's Mass directory and that was about it.)