Very interesting developments. Just read this on Rorate and looked at the posts here. I wonder if Rome will do what Msgr.Gherardini, Bishop Athanasius Schneider and others have asked, and openly put forward some much needed doctrinal clarifications. If the SSPX is officially recognized, anyone know whether it will be placed directly under the Pope and answerable only to him?

Good article by John Vennari, but he doesn't mention the agreement Archbishop Lefebvre signed with Rome on May 5,1988. That shows that at least in theory he was open to the possibility that the Council could be given an orthodox interpretation in the light of Tradition. If we understand ecuмenism in the sense of a return, religious liberty in the sense of toleration of error, the episcopal college as it was before Vatican II etc.

Big deal, the SSPX has gotten tremendous visibility to discuss the problems of the Vatican Council.

Meanwhile, the SSPX has the largest seminary in the German speaking countires and approximately a third of France's seminarians are traditional.

This whole thing only makes the Liberals look just like the irrelevant interlopers they've always been.