A Reuter's blog gives the text of a talk that Bishop Fellay, head of the SSPX, gave on the Vatican ultimatum listing conditions for the re-integration of the Society into the Church. In the speech Fellay refers to a talk that Archbishop Lefebvre gave many years ago, and this is also useful to read because it shows clearly how the issues as seen by the SSPX are not a simple matter of retaining the unreformed rite. As the Reuters piece indicates, within the SSPX there are people far more intransigent that Fellay can at times appear to be.

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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