SSPX.ORG is grateful to the Rorate Caeli blog for allowing us to republish their English version of Prof. Roberto de Mattei's piece about Pope Francis' motu proprio on the streamlined annulment process.
This infuriates me because the SSPX cannot seem to come up with their own commentary on this debacle. Instead they are "grateful" to rely on Rorate Caeli which is an Ecclesia Dei website for an article written by Dr. Mattei whose only objection to Vatican II is that it has been "misinterpreted". I'm not saying that Dr. Mattei doesn't write some good articles because he does but isn't this just another tactic of the SSPX to present a Novus Ordo website in a positive light to the unsuspecting laity?
SSPX cannot come up with their own commentary because the SSPX has effectively silenced all of their best writers and all of them who actually provided relevant and insightful commentary. I haven't heard from Fr. Peter Scott (I think that's his name) in years. Of course, we know what happened to Bishop Williamson (though I think his commentary has become more disjointed in recent months). And the SSPX is now censoring Archishop Lefebvre.
The problem is that those writers were apt to publish articles that seriously put in doubt the coming reconciliation. (Fr. Scott's doubts about the Modernist rites of Orders is probably especially unhelpful.)