https://cristiadatradicinalista.blogspot.com/2020/02/mgr-vitus-huonder-en-visite-officielle.html

"Bishop Vitus Huonder on official visit to French-speaking Switzerland
The official bulletin of the FSSPX in Switzerland (Le Rocher - February/March 2020 ) presents the official tour of Bishop Huonder in the district of Switzerland. Bishop Huonder, who has never publicly retracted his conciliar positions, had already preached several times in the chapel of Oberiet Priory in German-speaking Switzerland. He is now widening his circle of action with the agreement of the FSSPX authorities.  This tour is a way of officializing the integration of Bishop Huonder into the FSSPX.
He was thus able to visit the houses of Geneva and go as far as Glis... passing by the school "Fleurs de Mai" where the children sang a hymn to him."

Bp. Huonder is authorized by the Pope. It's not legitimate to refuse to accept visits from representatives of the Pope in Priories and Seminaries. Bp. Huonder is welcome.

Yes, Indeed. One should always receive Apostolic Visitors sent by Christ through His Vicar with respect and reverence. They come to us in the Name of Christ and as sent by Him. Remember Christ told His Apostles when He sent them out into the world, that whoever received them, received Him. But whoever despised them, despised Him. Do you wish to receive Christ, or perhaps to despise Him? Those who disagree about this teaching must be instructed on it, as the SSPX is doing.

Mat 10:40 He that receiveth you, receiveth me: and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me.

Luk 10:16 He that heareth you heareth me: and he that despiseth you despiseth me: and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.

There have always been Apostolic and Canonical Visitations of the Seminaries of the SSPX right from its founding in 1970 50 years ago.

Surely you are not unaware of the later Apostolic Visitation of Cardinal Gagnon several years later, who praised the Society, right? Yes, we know the legal difficulties, and the SSPX has been trying to make case to the Roman Authorities that the SSPX will serve the good of the Universal Church; a work in which the Resistance has not been helpful at all, in its deliberate obstruction of all canonical normalization. Even when there are injustices, says St. Thomas, and as the example of St. Athanasius, and more recently St. Padre Pio, shows, they must be patiently borne out of love for the Church with Faith that God will eventually set things right in relations with Rome. Meanwhile, your approach is practically distinguishable from ecclesia-vacantism, as if there is no Catholic Hierarchy anymore. You yourself quote +ABL in all those statements saying, we can't just say it's all finished in Rome etc, Sean, but then you want to treat it as if it is. What we can do is ask for good and friendly Bishops like Bp. Schneider or a Bp. Huonder to visit and favorably report on the Society to the Pope. 

Some details of Cardinal Gagnon's Apostolic Visitation: "The 11th of November, exactly 13 years after the first Apostolic Visit of 1974, Cardinal Gagnon and Msgr. Perl arrive in Econe. In a marathon visit till the 9th of December, they visit the 3 European seminaries, chapels, general house, groups of priests, schools, convents, retreat houses, up and down France, Germany, and Switzerland. In the Book of Honor of the seminary of Econe, Cardinal Gagnon writes a testimony of admiration for the work done in the seminary.

On December 8th, Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Cardinal Gagnon assists pontifically at the Mass celebrated by Archbishop Lefebvre during which 27 seminarians make their first engagement in the Society of St. Pius X. Thus, the Holy Father’s hand-picked delegate officially attends a Mass celebrated by a "suspended" bishop who receives members into a "suppressed" society, which "officially" does not exist." https://sspx.org/en/25-years-of-the-sspx-fr-angles-talk-part-4

Also reported on here: "On February 13 Die Welt published Father Schmidberger’s interview with Paul Badde. The veteran Catholic journalist asked whether the Society’s founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, would not already have reached an agreement with the present Pope, who has made so many conciliatory gestures. Father Schmidberger replied: 

Things are not that easy. During the visitation of our work by Cardinal Gagnon in 1987, Archbishop Lefebvre wrote the cardinal a letter and proposed a canonical structure for the Fraternity. At the same time, he made it very clear that current ecuмenism under the banner of religious relativism, religious liberty, the fruit of which is today’s secularism, and collegiality, that completely paralyzes the life of the Church, are unacceptable to us. Alas, even today there are still differences with the reigning Pope when it comes to these issues. 
Recalling the uproar in liberal Catholic circles when the Pope lifted the excommunications of the four SSPX bishops in January 2009, Badde asked, “What does the Society offer for reconciliation with the Church?”  The answer: 

When it is canonically recognized, the Society will bring a large religious potential and great religious strength into the interior of the Church. I see few ecclesiastical communities that have taken up the cause of complete unity between dogmatic theology, spirituality, and liturgy, and that live by it…. Furthermore, the Fraternity will be a great support for the Pope in conquering the latent schism that is present everywhere in Europe due to centrifugal forces. 

The journalist pressed the point: since the Pope has risked so much on its behalf, what is the SSPX willing to sacrifice? Father Schmidberger admitted, “We give up our relative freedom that we have used so far for the worldwide expansion of our work and we put it into the hands of the Pope. Anyway, this is not about some diplomatic agreement, but about the welfare of the Church and the salvation of souls.”
From: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2012/02/28/so-near-and-yet-so-far/

Surely you are not unaware of the later Apostolic Visitation of Cardinal Gagnon several years later, who praised the Society, right? Yes, we know the legal difficulties, and the SSPX has been trying to make case to the Roman Authorities that the SSPX will serve the good of the Universal Church; a work in which the Resistance has not been helpful at all, in its deliberate obstruction of all canonical normalization. Even when there are injustices, says St. Thomas, and as the example of St. Athanasius, and more recently St. Padre Pio, shows, they must be patiently borne out of love for the Church with Faith that God will eventually set things right in relations with Rome. Meanwhile, your approach is practically distinguishable from ecclesia-vacantism, as if there is no Catholic Hierarchy anymore. You yourself quote +ABL in all those statements saying, we can't just say it's all finished in Rome etc, Sean, but then you want to treat it as if it is. What we can do is ask for good and friendly Bishops like Bp. Schneider or a Bp. Huonder to visit and favorably report on the Society to the Pope.

Some details of Cardinal Gagnon's Apostolic Visitation: "The 11th of November, exactly 13 years after the first Apostolic Visit of 1974, Cardinal Gagnon and Msgr. Perl arrive in Econe. In a marathon visit till the 9th of December, they visit the 3 European seminaries, chapels, general house, groups of priests, schools, convents, retreat houses, up and down France, Germany, and Switzerland. In the Book of Honor of the seminary of Econe, Cardinal Gagnon writes a testimony of admiration for the work done in the seminary.

On December 8th, Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Cardinal Gagnon assists pontifically at the Mass celebrated by Archbishop Lefebvre during which 27 seminarians make their first engagement in the Society of St. Pius X. Thus, the Holy Father’s hand-picked delegate officially attends a Mass celebrated by a "suspended" bishop who receives members into a "suppressed" society, which "officially" does not exist." https://sspx.org/en/25-years-of-the-sspx-fr-angles-talk-part-4

Also reported on here: "On February 13 Die Welt published Father Schmidberger’s interview with Paul Badde. The veteran Catholic journalist asked whether the Society’s founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, would not already have reached an agreement with the present Pope, who has made so many conciliatory gestures. Father Schmidberger replied:

Things are not that easy. During the visitation of our work by Cardinal Gagnon in 1987, Archbishop Lefebvre wrote the cardinal a letter and proposed a canonical structure for the Fraternity. At the same time, he made it very clear that current ecuмenism under the banner of religious relativism, religious liberty, the fruit of which is today’s secularism, and collegiality, that completely paralyzes the life of the Church, are unacceptable to us. Alas, even today there are still differences with the reigning Pope when it comes to these issues.
Recalling the uproar in liberal Catholic circles when the Pope lifted the excommunications of the four SSPX bishops in January 2009, Badde asked, “What does the Society offer for reconciliation with the Church?”  The answer:

When it is canonically recognized, the Society will bring a large religious potential and great religious strength into the interior of the Church. I see few ecclesiastical communities that have taken up the cause of complete unity between dogmatic theology, spirituality, and liturgy, and that live by it…. Furthermore, the Fraternity will be a great support for the Pope in conquering the latent schism that is present everywhere in Europe due to centrifugal forces.

The journalist pressed the point: since the Pope has risked so much on its behalf, what is the SSPX willing to sacrifice? Father Schmidberger admitted, “We give up our relative freedom that we have used so far for the worldwide expansion of our work and we put it into the hands of the Pope. Anyway, this is not about some diplomatic agreement, but about the welfare of the Church and the salvation of souls.”
From: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2012/02/28/so-near-and-yet-so-far/

Regarding the 1987 visit, it is as Fr. Angles describes: "Thus, the Holy Father’s hand-picked delegate officially attends a Mass celebrated by a "suspended" bishop who receives members into a "suppressed" society, which "officially" does not exist."  

This is, therefore, no "canonical visit" in the true and/or legal sense (de jure), but merely a visit of Romans to discuss a canonical solution at a time when Lefebvre still entertaned the possibility of such.  They can call it a canonical visit if they want, but that don't make it so.  A visit to "something" with no canonical existence cannot be canonical.

You have lost the balance between "recognizing" and "resisting."

To you, the post-1988 Lefebvre is a practical sedevacantist.

You have gone all-in on recognizing, because like all those who rallied before you, you have fallen into legalism, and can only fathom canonical regularity.

You have no grasp on the doctrine of necessity, causes excusing from obedience to superiors, broad epikeia, etc.

You have also lost understanding that these doctrines are among the sources of canon law, and are therefore superior to them when law and doctrine come into conflict (truth vs authority; common good vs legality; necessity vs letter of the law; etc).

But if you think you are going to convince me that it is good to be collaborating with modernist clerics, you will be in for a frustrating battle (and you won't find much support for it in post-1988 Lefebvre).  

The old SSPX didn't think that way, and neither do I.

I understand through other sources that the SSPX is bigger in some French speaking areas than the Novus Ordo. For example mass every week vs mass once a month.

“What does the Society offer for reconciliation with the Church?”  The answer:

When it is canonically recognized, the Society will bring a large religious potential and great religious strength into the interior of the Church. I see few ecclesiastical communities that have taken up the cause of complete unity between dogmatic theology, spirituality, and liturgy, and that live by it…. Furthermore, the Fraternity will be a great support for the Pope in conquering the latent schism that is present everywhere in Europe due to centrifugal forces.

No. no, and no. Supporting Frankie the Destroyer? Good grief! The fate that awaits is the castration, de-horning and bridling - all of which have happened to those traitorous communities like the FSSP et al.

Must be a sale on this stuff this year or something......  

There is nothing good that could come out of being with communion with Rome right now. Wishful thinking, they can maybe be left alone like with the Byzantine churches and only be in communion on paper.

Even the most uninformed of God's creatures can recognize that something has been rotten in the Vatican for a very long time.

I understand through other sources that the SSPX is bigger in some French speaking areas than the Novus Ordo. For example mass every week vs mass once a month.

Everything is bigger than the Novus Ordo in France — no one goes to Mass there.

Yes, Indeed. One should always receive Apostolic Visitors sent by Christ through His Vicar with respect and reverence. They come to us in the Name of Christ and as sent by Him. Remember Christ told His Apostles when He sent them out into the world, that whoever received them, received Him. But whoever despised them, despised Him. Do you wish to receive Christ, or perhaps to despise Him? Those who disagree about this teaching must be instructed on it, as the SSPX is doing.

Mat 10:40 He that receiveth you, receiveth me: and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me.

Luk 10:16 He that heareth you heareth me: and he that despiseth you despiseth me: and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.

There have always been Apostolic and Canonical Visitations of the Seminaries of the SSPX right from its founding in 1970 50 years ago.

"Beware of false prophets who come to you in the clothing of sheep". Where are the good fruits? Just stating the obvious...