Far too much ado is being made about the Kayfabe, with the Motarians and conservatives howling "schism" as they rend their garmeents, and grifters everywhere attempting to capitalize on the attention is getting, with many declaring SSPX guilty of schism, where, last time I checked, there was no Canonical Penalty for SAYING you're GOING TO consecreate with or without a papal mandate. That was clearly just Fr. Pagliarani's attempt to get Rome's attention, and also to hurl it out there as a trial balloon, get feedback from priests in the field, and present that feedback to Prevost as they work out a deal in the smoke-filled back rooms. There will be no consecration without Prevost being involved. This is all Kayfabe.
What will eventually happen is that they'll work out a deal, but the approved consecrands will turn out in retrospect to have been infiltrators and/or the most liberal you can find among native SSPX, and Prevost isn't going to let SSPX just accidentallly consecrate someone that might be a problem for them, someone like a Bishop Williamson. I'm sure it'll be someone like the Arch-Modernist Heretic Fr. Paul Robinson for the English speaking areas.
By playing this game, also, Pagliarani satisfies the more conservative elements of SSPX by signalling that he had been WILLING to go it alone, giving the appearances of Fr. Pagliarani being fiercely independent from the Conciliar Vatican, and not just cutting a deal, whereas this deal and this "show" has already been pre-scripted.
"Hey, how about if I announced that we'll do the consecrations with or without a papal mandate. That will appease the more conservative types who might suspect that I'm a collaborator, but then we'll work out a 'deal' in the end to avoid alienating the more liberal types, and we'll make sure the chosen live up to Conciliar standards."
Topic: SSPX consecrations announced (Read 9764 times)