Stories like this have convinced me that groups like the SSPX will ultimately be vindicated by history. I don’t attend an SSPX church, but I envy them for their courage to just tell a local bishop like this to take a flying leap.
Keep in mind that the SSPX is not just about the Latin Mass. It is about theological errors found in Vatican II.
The Fraternal Society of Saint Peter (FSSP) is an apostolate that has been doing some blooming, providing priests who have a strict devotion to the Traditional Latin Mass of the Extraordinary Form to dioceses anywhere who can support their FSSP priest and a proper facility, chapel, or church building.
It takes a bare minimum of stipend and support, enough interested Catholics committed to this devotion for the Extraordinary Form, and an invitation by the bishop and a space for start up.
In my diocese, the bishop has no compulsion to entertain such an idea, and truly, from Rome there is no encouragement to recognize Summorum Pontificum, or to nudge bishops to be cooperative.
FSSP costs a diocese nothing. Not in manpower or financing. It is an apostolate who provide well trained priests and the people themselves support his service. Daily confessions are provided, before daily Mass, which is a service to the entire diocese seven days a week. n
Except for being occasionally being confused with the SSPX, who are at odds with Rome, the FSSP has a sterling reputation for holiness and are in line with the Pope.