Word to the Continuing Econians....

Allen's up... I'm rifling through it, but this sticks out for now from Scmidberger, the #2 of the SSPX:

In the lead-up to the Aug. 29 encounter, Schmidberger said he met in Rome with five cardinals and other officials of the Roman Curia, including Colombian Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, head of the Ecclesia Dei Commission created in 1988 to meet the pastoral needs of Catholics attached to the old Mass. Those five cardinals, he said, included three currently in the Vatican and two who are retired. Aside from Castrillón Hoyos, he declined to name the cardinals involved.

I could probably name the five....

Schmidberger told me that he believes reconciliation between Rome and the Lefebvrites "is a question of some years, rather than months."

Schmidberger said he was bothered by a Vatican statement after the meeting which spoke of moving towards full communion.

"We have always considered ourselves to be in full communion with Rome," he said. "Talk of restoring 'full communion' is psychological rather than theological."

That Vatican statement also spoke of moving forward by "degrees," so I asked Schmidberger what those degrees might be.

Schmidberger cited the two pre-conditions that have routinely been laid down by the Lefebvrites: the pope should acknowledge the right of any priest to celebrate the pre-Vatican II Mass, and the Vatican should stop referring to the "excommunications" of the four bishops consecrated by Lefebvre in 1988.

Hmmmm... "The Vatican should stop referring to the 'excommunications.'" Schismatics, give me a break.

Whatever happened to calling a spade a spade?

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