Has Menzingen really left the deal on the table?
http://www.cathinfo.com/catholic.php?a=topic&t=24925
"After sending to Rome
the texts of the General Chapter of last July, I met Mgr. Di Noia on 28th
August 2012, and I informed him that I was withdrawing our April
proposal, which could no longer serve as a basis from which to work."
Bishop Fellay
Yes.
Legally and Canonically convoked in front of the Blessed Sacrament, with all of the SSPX superiors present, through the last Docuмent of the July 14, 2012 General Chapter.
The July 14, 2012 Docuмent has NOT been retracted; it is still in effect.
Secondly, the contents within the docuмent of April 14, 2012 is a
Doctrinal Declaration sent as a proposal for an agreement.
1. - That Docuмent was sent to Conciliar Rome to serve as a basis for a contractual agreement.
2. - One cannot legally submit a
signed Docuмent and then "verbally" withdraw it. One has to withdraw, or retract it, in
writing. There is NO proof that Bishop Fellay has done so in writing; nor had communicated that he had done so.
3. - The Docuмent of April 14, 2012 is a
Doctrinal Declaration that had placed the whole of the SSPX members under its contents and consequence.
4. - Also, a Doctrinal Declaration is what it is; a statement of Doctrine. Either you still believe in that Doctrine, or you do not. So for Bishop Fellay to say that he "verbally" withdrawn the Doctrine he submitted to conciliar Rome is certainly a scandal at minimum.
5. - To further a deal with conciliar Rome, that 3-months later, on July 14, 2012, Bishop Fellay with his other superiors, had made another contractual agreement with conciliar Rome; which shows the intent to continue to make an agreement. That submission of contract is still in effect.
6. - In addition, Bishop Fellay, through DICI.org, had desired Pope Benedict XVI to make a deal with the SSPX as his last act as Pope in February 2013.