Another interesting aspect is that Rome doesn't entirely see the SSPX as non-Catholic.  You wouldn't grant "jurisdiction" to a bunch of people who are not Catholic simpliciter ... e.g. to the Orthodox.  There has been other language in the past which indicates the same thing, that they're "canonically irregular" and referring the rift as an "internal matter of the Church".

Yes, as someone (you?) pointed out, he referred to the SSPX adherents as "the faithful". You don't call non-Catholic congregations by that name.

Again, this is part of a very seductive carrot, or bait for a trap. You can see the two sides coming together. And that is not a good thing. Rome is about as far from converted as you can get.

Say I had a bunch of worldly co-workers -- who I was normally not close to -- but at a certain point I realized that I had been hanging out with them all the time and totally accepted by them. Wouldn't that be disturbing? Especially if they hadn't changed at all. If I ever found myself in such a situation, I think I'd slap myself and go on a 1-week retreat to see what's happened to me, or at least what happened to my Catholicism.

It doesn't matter if +Fellay was in on this particular development or not.

When a couple is openly courting each other, you can't leave the other party out of the equation, even if the man (or woman) decides to surprise the other with a gift or other token of affection. The affection is being fostered and nurtured by both sides over many months. Yes, it's technically true that she had no idea he was going to give her that beautiful necklace.

But can she really say she's shocked or flabbergasted? They've been expressing love for each other, spending time together, meeting each other's family, talking about marriage...

Let's just say it's normal and expected, even if the particulars of this gesture were a surprise to one of the parties.

Or a better example -- a woman getting a proposal from her beau.  They've been courting for months, talking marriage, but isn't she still somewhat happy/excited/surprised/etc. when he actually pops the question? She had no idea WHEN he would do it, or what the circuмstances would be. That much will be a surprise. But the proposal itself? I'm sure she saw it coming.

The rest of us did, we just wondered what form it would take, now we know...

Bishop Fellay wants a deal so bad he can taste it. And yes, he's "that obvious". He thinks he's done a good job of hiding it, being stoic, or putting one over on us. He's mistaken. Just look at the whole Resistance.

I don't think he's "mistaken."  He's clever like a fox, and he has been deliberately testing the waters by his personal appearances all over the world for the past 21 years since he was first elected SG, through which, along with his selected informants worldwide, he has monitored the transition of opinions among the Faithful and Society priests from the state they were largely in during the lifetime of ABL, to the ideal of his lifelong objective:




Bishop Fellay is not only a believer in evolution, he is a PRACTITIONER of same.

Have you ever heard him preach about the erroneous hypothesis of evolution?

No, you haven't, and don't bother waiting because you never will.

We might be under the impression that he's "mistaken" because we are cognizant of his subterfuge and deliberate agenda of deceit, acting in one way and speaking in another, but he has been watching the effects of BOTH his actions and his words, even if they are at odds with each other, and he knows what he can get away with.  

Hell, he can even expel one of his brother bishops (an act UNPRECEDENTED in the entire history of the Church for any pious fraternity!!!) and have the MAJORITY of his followers give him a free pass because they think the expelled bishop was 'anti-Semitic', a crime that to modern man is an UNFORGIVABLE sin.  But that's only because modern man in the main has no idea what 'anti-Semitism' really means.  They can't define it.

But I can.  

But who cares?  Modern man has been Chinese-tortured into thinking that definition, per se, is not relevant.

Bishop Bernard Fellay has been hanging this agenda of reconciliation with Rome out for all to see ever since 1996, and perhaps a year earlier.  I know because I was in Arcadia when he came there that year to give a 3-hour conference after Mass.  I stood there and with my own 2 eyes and ears, saw him describe the attractiveness of being normalized with Rome as (quote) "...a luscious plumb."

He wiggled his manicured fingers in the air as he described the attractiveness of this luscious plumb, in a manner that all-too-well reminded me of Cardfile Balony, I mean Cardinal Mahony, whom some are convinced is a Freemason.

It was only later, upon reflection, that it occurred to me that this description was all too reminiscent of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden.  

Through the years, I have never heard him DENY that he desires to be reconciled with Rome even if Rome remains Modernist, NewAge, Novus Ordo and 'evolved' from the 'obsolete' roots from which it sprang.  

I have not heard of him ever pronouncing an explanation for this logical discontinuity and separation from the ultimate product of ABL's lifetime of contemplation and experience, to wit, it is useless to try to have any effect on Rome so as to 'convert' her to the Faith of Catholics, and no doctrinal discussions would ever make a whit of difference, so long as Rome has not converted first;  but when Rome converts first, no doctrinal discussion would be necessary.

What I have seen instead are numerous long-winded and boring speeches where he drones on and on and on with fuzzy feel-goodisms and ambiguous half-meaningless or poorly worded spontaneous translations from some foreign language, since his ESL leaves him at a loss in English for he doesn't THINK in English (as +W obviously does).  One might think "something was lost in the translation," but I rather conclude that "something ELSE was lost in translation," since from the start there was missing substance.

What was missing?



Epilogue:

He believes he can transform Rome from the inside (hopefully back to Tradition!) because, hell, he has been able to transform the SSPX into a Modernist-Rome-friendly Society from the inside, and only a miracle worker would ever have been able to pull that off, therefore, he can do the reverse manoeuvre to Rome as well................."Watch me."


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SSPX regulars won't bother much about this because they will still go to SSPX priests for confession before and after the "Year of Mercy" regardless. This announcement by Pope Francis, I reckon, will be more food for thought for those SSPX-hating indult/motu proprio folks. Those who fear going to SSPX priests for confession usually belongs to this group. Will they start flocking to Society chapels? I doubt so, but we shall see.

Hm?  Isn't forgiveness of sin, penance of the catholics?  Are all abortionists, catholic?  In our area, we have a Jew for an abortionist.  They have no sorrow, there for they get nothing.

Does this mean the Pope is also cleansed of his sins of supporting abortion in all dioceses that take on Catholic Charities?  Hm?  Never a mention in the media for the atrocities of the new Order supporting abortion.  Life site news could do better.
Let's accuse the ones who refer and gather the money.  

I disagree with your analysis, claudel.  You talk about "denotation" and the ability to read "actual words".  But there are NO "actual words" which explicitly state:  "SSPX's Confessions are not currently valid."  One can argue that it's strongly implied, but it's not denoted in any actual words.

And it's not true that the Vatican had heretofore granted the validity of all the Sacraments administered by SSPX priests while focusing on liceity.  In the case of those Sacraments that require jurisdiction, liceity and validity are closely related.

Nor did Francis merely "recognize" the faculties; he explicitly granted them.