It is amazing and depressing to see how many have not understood that ABL was fighting for the greater Church, not the rights of the SSPX.
ABL signed the 1988 Protocol without a pre-condition of Rome returning to the faith. When he reneged the following day, it was not because he thought of imprecise V2 docuмents all night.
He was fighting for the greater church and saw that an agreement would allow his priests to operate more freely and spread the faith within the church and countermand the heresy, apostasy, and ignorance. ABL was forming his priests for that battle without requiring Rome to first wave a white flag.
We had three SSPX seminarians over for dinner during Easter. One of them was my son. When I asked them what was currently being taught about the N.O., without a blush, they said that it was "intrinsically evil".
You have completely missed the point that Bp Fellay is doing EXACTLY what ABL would have done in 1988 and what he would be doing now under these terms. Without even knowing the particulars, you anticipate that he is a weak-kneed Bp Rifan and has no strength to continue to spread the faith within the church.
If you accuse him of being a sell-out, you could at least have the courtesy of waiting until you see where he has accepted the new faith. You will be shamed if you find out that he and the other bishops may be intent on reforming the church from the inside out .. it has been done before.
If I am wrong, I'll be on the same bus as you headed for wherever and whomever has the faith. If you believe that Benedict is the Pope, then you cannot refuse a request that does not compromise faith or morals. If that invitation only consists of an invitation to canonical communion, it would be cowardly to refuse it out of fear that one might be expected to betray the faith in the future.