[NYer]

I'll post pictures once they are made available.

[old and tired]

I am praying for a good outcome to this meeting. Other than banning the NO, I wonder what our SSPX friends on the board would like to see as the outcome of this meeting.

Personally, I'd like to see a Tridentine Rite established, so that anyone who wants to go to a Latin Mass can go. Giving them a personal prelature is insufficient, since that would still put the local bishop in charge of them, and that, in effect, doesn't change a thing.

Here in Philly, the Latin Mass is easily accessible for anyone who'd like to go to it. I think that's the way it should be. If it weren't for the SSPX, however, I think many dioceses wouldn't have a Latin Mass at all, and that's just not right.

[Salvation]

**With Benedict now pope, some have speculated that there might be a new push to bring the society back under Rome's wing.**

Do you think this will really happen?

[TaxachusettsMan]

PRESS RELEASE ABOUT BISHOP FELLAY'S
MEETING WITH POPE BENEDICT XVI

Albano Laziale
August 29, 2005

Today, Bishop Bernard Fellay, Superior General of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X met with the Holy Father Benedict XVI at his residence of Castelgandolfo. At the conclusion of the audience, he [Bishop Fellay] made the following declaration:

The meeting lasted about thirty-five minutes; it took place in an atmosphere of calm.

The audiences was an opportunity for the Society to manifest that it has always been attached —and always will be —to the Holy See, Eternal Rome.

We broached the serious difficulties, already known, in a spirit of great love for the Church.

We reached a consensus as to proceeding by stages in the resolution of problems.

The Society of Saint Pius X prays that the Holy Father might find the strength to put an end to the crisis in the Church by "restoring all things in Christ."

+ Bernard Fellay
Superior General

[Hermann the Cherusker]

The society claims about 450 priests, 180 seminarians and has a presence in 26 countries.

In other words, 1 of every 1000 Catholic Priests is in the SSPX. If we included the number of ex-SSPX priests and the priests in daughter groups of the SSPX like the FSSP, SSPV, and among the independents, it would probably be 1 in 500.

[RobbyS]

"The problem is that these concessions have not been enough for the schismatics," Reese said in an e-mail. "They want the rest of the church to follow them in rejecting Vatican II, which they consider illegitimate."

The society claims about 450 priests, 180 seminarians and has a presence in 26 countries. Sadly, the classic sectarian attitude: the whole world (Church)is wrong, except us.