These questions were just posed by Catholic Family News. I'd like to hear the SSPX answer them!
Since the publication of this report in CFN, there have been a few more developments.
1) On October 24, the SSPX expelled Bishop Richard Williamson. On the same day, Fr. Andreas Steiner, SSPX Media Spokesman in Germany, is reported to have said: “The decision [to expel Bishop Wiliamson] will certainly facilitate the talks.” I confess I find this to be a curious statement. It invites the question: if the present impasse is truly on a doctrinal level with Pope Benedict insisting the SSPX accept all of the Council and the licitness of the New Mass, how does the expulsion of Bishop Williamson change this in any way? With Bishop Williamson gone, will Pope Benedict now suddenly reverse himself and say the SSPX does not have to accept all of Vatican II, does not have to accept the 'goodness and licitness' of the New Mass?
That's not a bad start, but it's not the whole enchilada, either.
What about - With +W gone, will B16 now say, "Okay, that's one down, two
more to go?" Or, will he take the Society for the chumps they are acting as,
and demand that they continue to come around with their compromise of the
Founder's principles? What will +Fellay do if the sudden shortage of bishops
in the Society is met with B16's proposal that the Society accept a Novus
Ordo bishop to "help out?" - you know, as a "sign of good will?"
2) The Vatican’s Ecclesia Dei Commission announced on October 27 that work will continue with the SSPX in the hope of reaching some sort of Agreement. This appears yet the latest rendition of what Bishop Fellay earlier outlined as Rome's farcical reaction to the SSPX doctrinal discussions: we disagree, “let’s get together” anyway. Yet if it is true that Pope Benedict insists on SSPX accepting all of the Council, and if Bishop Fellay remains steadfast in refusing to accept all of the Council, how can any Accord be reached without one side or the other caving in? Especially when Bishop Fellay insists in the Adelaide Conference and in his recent talk in Kansas City that the SSPX will not give way on Vatican II? In fact, the United States' SSPX website noted yesterday that the Ecclesia Dei announcement appears to be an attempt to "put pressure on the Superior General, Bishop Fellay, to accept the CDF's docuмent of June 13, which he has rejected three times over."
Can you imagine if instead of Eve walking past the Tree of the Knowledge of
Good and Evil, it had been Our Blessed Mother: would she have paused to
"dialogue" with the devil? Or, as Canon Hesse claimed, "She would have had one
thing to say to the serpent:
'Go Back To Hell, Where You Came From!' and END
the dialogue!" I suspect rather, the latter.
Pause just a moment and consider the implications. A) There would have been
no original sin, AND, B) There would have been
no consequences of original sin.
Now, try to imagine some of the consequences of the SSPX making a false
deal with apostate Rome.
Difficult to do, is it? How about this: try to put yourself in Eve's place, and think, "How would Eve
have been able to anticipate the consequences for tens of billions of people
for thousands of years, if she pauses for a moment to "dialogue" with the
serpent,
instead of telling him to 'Go Back To Hell Where You Came From'?" 3) As I posted last week, we must remember the Vatican power of Romanita: “If you can out wait all, you can rule all.” May the SSPX continue to resist, and may they remain steadfast in their refusal of any compromise with the disastrous Second Vatican Council, which the modernist Cardinal Suenens celebrated as “the French Revolution in the Church.” – JV
http://www.cfnews.org/page10/page60/no_rome_sspx_accord.html
It looks like Vennari is scrambling for damage control. He was starting to back
away from the fight 'last week' by going soft on the accordistas. But when
enough subscribers notified him that they are going to cancel their subscription,
he had to take notice.
Let Vennari not forget, one of the earmarks of Romanita is, you do not back
down, but rather, capitalize on your opponent backing down. The Vatican
doesn't show much sign of turning over a new leaf. It's all window-dressing.
Vatican II is their false god, and they hold onto it with a tenacious grip, come
what may. Fortunately, these die-hard cardinals are in fact dying, and then
there may be some light at the end of the tunnel!
IOW, his own policy of "Romanita" isn't going to work with a large segment of his
audience. And he had better wise up, or else just become another "Remnant."
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