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Fellay: SSPX readmission ‘explosive’
8 June 2012
www.thetablet.co.uk/latest-news/4210
THE SSPX Superior General has predicted that there will be an “explosion” in the Church if the Society of St Pius X (SSPX) is readmitted.
Bishop Fellay was speaking in the last week of May at a small chapel used by the SSPX in Vienna’s 7th district. In a two and a half hour address on the ongoing negotations between the Vatican and the SSPX, Bishop Fellay said that it was the personal wish of Pope Benedict XVI that the SSPX should return.
Cardinals and bishops were deeply divided on the issue, he said, and Pope Benedict had said it would be “far easier for” both himself and the Society to leave things as they were.
Bishop Fellay also gave an indication of how a return might be structured. He said it was “simply wonderful” that so many Anglicans had come over to Rome and that the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham had been formed. He hoped “something similar” would be possible for the SSPX.
How is something or someone “readmitted” to something it never left?
That’s oldspeak, Tim. The whole Lefebvricon is about to be “renewed.”
The whole Lefebvricon is about to be “renewed.”
I see what you did there Jake.
I took the bait.
Is it really going to be that explosive? From what I can gather from my relatives and friends back in the NO there is hardly knowledge that there is a traditional movement. Indeed, I always have to explain the kind of Mass that I attend; how people dress, how we kneel for Communion, the priest turned towards the altar. Describing my chapel to them is like trying to explain a Russian Orthodox service in Croatia! I think people are just going to shrug their shoulders and get on with their gladhanding after the Our Father.
No, the real explosion I see is going to be in the Society. I think there are oodles of people who have been schmede-vacationists in all but name. Who will still be in the pews when the dust settles, I wonder? Holy Queen of angels, guide us all!
I say: bring on the ‘explosion’.