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Something that is not lost to history is the fact that Fr. Leonard Feeney had been sidelined (so-called excommunicated -- just like the 6 bishops were later in 1988) because of his firm and uncompromising stand on EENS (and perhaps his questioning of BoD was tossed in for good measure), and the Vatican progressives could see that he was the only man in 1952 who was taking such a stand, which would be a problem for their agenda and the Council to come (10 years later - whether or not they knew it would be that long is insignificant). They were preparing the way for the Council that would open the door to false ecuмenism, and an implicit denial of EENS, even if they would not pronounce it as such.
Remember, the Holy Ghost protected Vat.II from defining dogmatically any kind of error, and this was done by allowing a council to take place where any condemnation of error was to be avoided. It was actually a direct consequence of no condemnation of error.
Fr. Feeney was consigned to this fake excommunication for over 20 years, until such time as his health was failing after the Newmass was let loose on the world. The upper hierarchy of the Church had pity on him, and sent 3 clerics to visit his priory one day. They came unannounced and without any appointment, as if to catch him by surprise. They told him that the Church did not want to see him remain in exile and so, they wanted to extend the hand of Christian charity to him, to lift the excom, and to do that, some profession of faith would be required. Fr. Feeney, in his typically quick wisdom, immediately suggested the Athanasian Creed, and the group of 4, with St. Benedict Center witnesses standing at hand, recited the Athanasian Creed, in Latin, of course.
You see, it is in the Traditional Breviary every Sunday, in Latin, so all these 4 clerics had been in the habit of reciting it 54 times a year, that is, until the Breviary was changed, but that had only been about 8 years before, and so, even these 3 Novordiens still remembered the Latin, since they had been ordained some 15 or 20 years previously, at least.
Therefore, the man who had been so-called excomed for his adherence to EENS (even though the excom made no mention of that, still, that was the true reason behind the unprecedented action, as well as his reservations against BoD as it was being promoted), was mysteriously restored to full communion with the Church by pronouncing the very Creed that adheres to EENS just like Fr. had, the Athanasian Creed. This was therefore a tacit admission that the reason he had been so-called sanctioned was a dead letter, and it had been so all along.
The whole thing was a big charade ever since 1949, and the 122/49 Protocol Letter (the subject of the OP in another thread). But even though it was all a smokescreen, it would not make any headlines. It is up to us to realize that this happened, because in the future, it's the kind of thing that will be denied by liberals with an agenda.
Furthermore, anyone who is excommunicated for heresy or for some doctrinal question, must abjure his error before he can be rejoined with the Church. But no such abjuration was mentioned by these 3 clerics to Fr. Feeney that day. And it makes sense, because, obviously, he had committed no error in doctrine, so there was nothing to abjure.
If the 3 clerics had asked him to abjure an error of some kind, they would have to fabricate one out of thin air, and that would be incriminating, plus, they had abandoned the practice of condemnation of error ever since the M.R.S. of John XXIII in 1962, the year of his new Missal.
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