Incredible.
If the reason these Novus Ordo bishops were holding back was a mere matter of regularization, why have they not already sent these 1000 seminarians to the FSSP, ICK, IBP, etc?
On the other hand, just imagine if it were true: What a dilution of tradition would occur by mixing Novus Ordo modernists (and plenty of ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs...take it from one who has been in a diocesan seminary) with convinced traditionalists!