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To: TaxachusettsMan; StAthanasiustheGreat; Salvation; old and tired; sandyeggo; All
Here's the first image file. Will post more as they arrive.


Swiss Bishop Bernard Fellay, the successor of the late ultra-traditionalist rebel French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, smiles as he arrives at his residence in Albano, south of Rome, after a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI in his summer residence of Castelgandolfo August 29, 2005. Pope Benedict and the head of a breakaway ultra-traditionalist Catholic group agreed at an unprecedented meeting held on Monday to work together to end a 17-year schism in the Roman Catholic Church. The Pope held closed-door talks with Fellay, head of the renegade Society of St. Pius X, which favours old-style Latin Masses and opposes the modernisation of Catholicism by the 1962-65 Second Vatican Council. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

7 posted on 08/29/2005 7:53:09 AM PDT by NYer
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To: NYer

That looks like Fr. Schmidberger to me, rather than Bishop Fellay. I had thought Fr. Schmidberger would not be attending the meeting, but if he did that's probably a good sign for reconciliation, as I have always understood him to be in favor of it.

The wording of the press release from Dr. Navarro-Valls was also interesting, as it sounded more positive than it might.

I think that ultimately that it is likely the SSPX will have to come back into regular status with Rome without Bp Williamson, who seems determined to continue in exile forever, much like the Russian Old Believers, who have been out of the Moscow Patriarchate fold for 300 or so years, or for that matter certain segments of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), who are resisting the reconciliation of ROCOR with Moscow that is now starting to take place. Interestingly enough, the canonical Orthodox now seem to be developing something of an admiration for the Old Believers' faith and fidelity, despite in some cases bloody persecutions. A very interesting literary treatment of this is in Solzhenitsyn's "August 1916."

Oremus--and hard.


8 posted on 08/29/2005 8:53:06 AM PDT by Theophane
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