Society of St Pius X

Pope Benedict is meeting with the Roman Curia where the topic of discussion will be the reconciliation of the Society of St Pius X with the See of Rome. The group broke with Rome in 1988 after its founder, the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, ordained three new bishops in defiance of Rome's orders. The vatican's responce to the illicit ordinations was to excommunicate the new bishops along with bishop Lefebvre. Now Rome would like to recind these excommunications. Roman Catholic blog is reporting via a link to Catholic News Agency.

Vichy, Feb. 01, 2006 (CNA) - The Saint Pius X Fraternity and its superior general Bishop Fellay , are seeking the regularize their situation with the Holy See, in a declaration made by the same bishop on January 13th, and in comments to French newspaper La Croix.

According to the superior general, the Vatican would be willing to grant them a status of autonomy and the creation of a personal apostolic administration directly under the administration of of the Pope. The same has been done already in 2001-2002 in Campos, Brazil.

Bishop Fellay is confident this status will be granted to them, even though, he says, “we don’t want to be a catholic group aside. We don’t ask for the old mass just for us, but for all. But maybe we have to go through this transitory status.”

With any luck the Lefebvrest's won't do as has been there want in the past, which is to find a way to sabatoge the talks.