The dialogue is over until the dialogue resumes. Menzingen could do no other but slide back into a hardline pose. The anniversary gives it that opportunity and the priests and laity can now relax with the impression that nothing much ever happened. But the missing bishop on the declaration speaks louder than the resurrected script. It concludes a period of tension which started with three bishops out of four opposing an accord with Rome. And now three bishops out of four are bluffing it out and proclaiming that it is business as usual. But we know what Menzingen says and what Menzingen does are two different things.