Gentiloup sent me some more quotes from the book:
Page 44-45:
In March 2003, I [Fr. Lelong] went to Rome with Father La Brosse and we were both received by Cardinal Catrillon Hoyos, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy. . . . I was struck by one of his remarks: we observed that in our country the misunderstandings and tensions between the episcopate and the SSPX are often politically motivated, more so than for truly theological reasons. This observation seemed to be a fair but just one because, in the '70s, I had often heard the French bishops reproaching Catholics who were attached to the Latin Mass for being of the “extreme right.” And recently, Cardinal Lustiger told me one day: “We will never agree with the Lefebvristes because they are anti-Semitic.” . . .
It is not possible for me to quote here all the letters that were exchanged between GREC and several important persons in the Vatican.
During the early years, with the exception of the days they had organized a colloquium . . . GREC did not host meetings for more than a dozen people. . . . But in 2004, we decided to invite a greater number of participants to our meetings—participants representing the most diverse currents of the Church in France.
Pages: 55-57
Father de la Brosse . . . wrote down the schema of the themes we would address before such a large gathering:
• What are the issues that really divide us?
• Who are those within the Catholic Church that we would consider to be our brothers?
• Vatican II : a communal re-reading of several of the major texts for which our interpretation is different.
• Ecuмenism, Judaism, Islam, interfaith dialogue: these forms of encounters of the Catholic Church with other expressions of religious reality divide us. How can we remedy this to arrive at a healthy concept of dialogue, in charity and truth?
• Unity of worship and plurality of forms of prayer: the Mass, its past, present and future.
. . .
To support this perspective, a “theological group” was formed within GREC and met for the first time on September 18, 2004. The participants included Bishop Breton, Fr. Barthe, Fr. Lorans, Fr. de la Brosse, Fr. Charles Morerod, Fr. de La Rocque, Mrs. Perol, Miss Doutrebente and me[Fr. Lelong]. What made this meeting important was that among the participants were two priests with significant responsibilities within the SSPX and two theologians who were very close to the Holy See, one of whom, Fr. Morerod, had come to Rome to participate in GREC. . . .
The second meeting of the “theological group” created within GREC took place several months later at the Nunciature, where Bishop Baldelli greeted us and had us sit at his table at the dinner which followed the work session.
During the following year, these exchanges continued between the conciliarist and traditional theologians in Rome and Paris. However, while continuing to support this doctrinal dialogue and remaining very discreet, GREC stopped actually organizing it when they noted, with joy and hope, that it had taken on a more official character.