If this is true, and it smells like Bp Fellay's usual actions, then the good Bishop Williamson could finally be expelled from the Neo-SSPX "very, very" soon.
For sure the Neo-SSPX can't join New-Rome as long as Bishop Williamson is a formal member. Because the good shepherd always throws a monkey wrench into the works of the New-Roman and Menzingen modernists. They must be "very, very" angry on him. :-)
Ethelred,
You hit the nail on the head. Rome has no use for +Williamson and +Fellay could only do it in a cowardly manner making it look as if it is +Williamson’s fault.
Bishop Fellay began the purging of the SSPX years ago. Now is the time to complete it. By expelling + Williamson and some district superiors, the faithful will follow and start new. With the opposition gone, what stops them from fulfilling their "just" dream of “reintegration”. This is a well calculated move that may have been ordered from above.
A few days ago, +Williamson stated that there was
danger of a deal “before the end of the year”. That same day, I read that BXVI had completed his new encyclical for the "Year of Faith” at Castel Gandolfo, but it would not be released until January. Does it make sense to anyone to delay the precious encyclical for the "Year of Faith” until January with all the fuss and celebration going on? The excuse is that the pope wants to release first his 3rd volume on the life of Christ. I believe that the encyclical will be about the “new 1962 missal” (and the burial of the old) and Rome is waiting for the “reintegration” to take place before the bomb goes off.
There has been a silence in the English speaking world about the
June 25-28 Sacred Liturgy 2013 (Hybrid)
Conference in Rome. The Pope will offer the mass according to this missal on the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, June 29th, the day after the conference ends.The big emphasis at this conference is this hybrid in relation to the “Year of Faith”. All the speakers at the conference are “reform of the reform” bishops, priests and laity. The two main bishops at the conference are Bishop Dominique Rey and Bishop Mark Aillet (until recently, a priest in the St. Martin Community in France who has been working hard for the “reform of the reform”)
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2010/03/reform-of-reform-communities-communaute.htmlI may add that the two bishops mentioned, will be made cardinals at the new consistory next February, maybe as early as November 2012.