Bishop Fellay, head of the Lefebvrite Priestly Society of St. Pius X, has just issued his latest "Letter to Benefactors and Friends," almost entirely devoted to the three points that are, as he sees it, at the heart of his group's "difficult relations" with the Vatican; religious freedom, ecumenism, and collegiality. If this text is indicative of the response he has just sent to the Vatican's "Doctrinal Preamble," any accommodation must appear to be very far away. And Fellay is considered to be the least intransigent of the four bishops of the Society!

Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.

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