It must be, because aside from the surprising blurb on the SSPX French District website, I just heard my first anti-modernist/Rome/Vatican 2 sermon in 8 years, in which, among other things, the priest declared the MP “an attack upon the Mass by enemies of the Faith,” and pondered the strangeness of such a docuмent emanating from the one who Christ sent to be His Vicar over the Church.
He mentioned an SSPX response would likely be forthcoming in the next week or so.
Obviously, the Resistance is FULLY vindicated by the mask dropping from the face of the Roman enemies.
If the SSPX believed the alleged changes in Rome (supposedly evinced by SP and the lifting of the excommunications) justified a reciprocal change in the SSPX regarding an agreement, that charade is now dead (and this new situation should logically, then, result in a proportionate retrenchment and retreat by the Society):
Yes, Fr. Simoulin, we must become 1988ers again.
But does Fr. Paul Robinson still consider the FSSP a safer venue than the Resistance?
What I heard from the pulpit today was that the Ecclesia Dei groups were compromises, now doomed to starvation by the new MP (which seems to preclude any additional churches for them).
Eyes are opening.
To whatever extent the Resistance served as a counterweight to a suicidal accord (and it clearly did, thanks primarily to +BW), it is owed an apology and a thank you by many in the SSPX.