If the SSPX hasn’t already received a canonical approval (possibly, but not certainly implicit in the Argentine recognition) “in pectore,” which would explain many things (eg., using ICK priests to staff its African chapels, acquiescing in the COVID19 shot, sending the 2018 General Chapter results to Rome for ratification, having Huonder consecrate holy oils, receive jurisdiction for confessions, General refusal to attack V2 from the pulpit, etc.), this further extension and progression of Huonder’s activity within the SSPX may have set the table for it.
Recall the pitch marketed by the SSPX that Huonder just wanted to retire there (whereas we docuмented his being sent by Francis expressly to report on and help the Society’s progress toward conciliar reintegration).
To gradually progress from wanting a nice place to sleep, to consecrating holy oils is quite the expansion. Rome must be pleased. And if holy oils fly without protest, why not bishops?
A priest in Winona when I was there during and after the Campos capitulation told me that Rome had quietly sanated their marriages, unannounced. Given that the Protocol signed, then rejected by Lefebvre also included a provision proposed by Rome to sanate SSPX marriages “ad cautelam” (ie., just in case), I can’t shake the thought that something similar has been done with the Society.
It would be unprovable and unknowable, barring an admission, of course, but would explain many puzzling things (like those mentioned above).