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Ten years ago our SSPX priest led a Eucharistic Procession to the steps of the local Novus Ordo parish.  There we had Benediction in reperation for the many sins and blasphemy s against Our Lord.  (Communion in the hand, Eucharistic Ministers, slovenly dressed parishioners...). What an example for my children!  What a stand for the rights of Our Lord!  Now what do you hear from the SSPX in reparation?....CRICKETS!

Henry, if there is more poison in the soup than ever, why does +Fellay now say it is okay to eat?  He now says Religious Liberty is very limited, and the New Mass is legitimate.  He says that SSPX must not act as bulldozers.  When the guard dog, the very dog who is responsible to serve, protect and defend Christ the King stops barking, it is useless.  

Why has +Fellay reduced the once barking SSPX into a whimpering puppy?

Put otherwise, what Archbishop Lefebvre might well have said—had he not been disinclined, both by nature and by long experience, to treat his interlocutors as simpletons—was that any such blank-check offer from Rome as the hypothetical one (a hypothesis that is being flogged with a vigor better applied to an object that can yield something more than howls of pain) would constitute prima facie evidence of a "sufficient conversion" of conciliar Rome to the True Faith. Hence, it would be just the sort of situation where a no-compromise resolve, even were it to be as strong as case-hardened steel, would have to yield, because the conditions under which the resolve had been formed no longer applied.

Yes, ABL makes it clear that receiving a bum deal from Rome was a sign that he could not trust them or deal with them. Until their conversion they would continually try to paralyze the Society. So in effect a "sweetie pie deal" could be a sign in and of itself of Rome's conversion, or at least a significant turn in the tide, and thus would be worthy of consideration.  

It could be argued that +Fellay is simply doing the same thing. "He will not make a bad deal". IOW if he receives a sweetie pie deal he will take that as a sign of Rome's sufficient conversion. However, he has obliterated any hope of using the example with all of the internal shifts he has already made to be more appealing to Rome and the NO public. Between GREC and the many concessions already made which are crystalized in the PC image he is branding for the Society, he could never hope to argue that he holds the same take-us-as-we-are-and-we-will-know-you-have-returned-to-Tradition ground as ABL. Where ABL realized he had to stand two feet away from the precipice (the TRUE definition of prudence, I might add), +Fellay is desperately hanging over it, blowing in the wind and angling to meet them halfway as if somehow that will bring them to his side. It inspires no confidence whatsoever in his judgment and it shows that he doesn't understand (or perhaps rejects) why the Society MUST stand strong in the first place.