PING!
Contrary to the intentions that some attribute to him, Pope Benedict XVI does not intend to reconsider the course that the Second Vatican Council gave to the Church. He is solemnly committed in this regard. As of his election, he affirmed: “Rightly, the Pope John-Paul II indicated the Second Vatican Council is a “compass” according to which we can be directed in the vast ocean of the third Millenium (Apostolic cf Letter Novo Millennio ineunte, 57-58). And it also noted in his spiritual will: “I am convinced that a long time still it will be given to rising generation to draw from the richnesses that this Council of the 20th century lavished on us” (March 17, 2000). Consequently, for me also, while I prepare to achieve the service which is that of the Successor of Peter, I want to affirm with force my very firm will to continue the task of the implementation of the Second Vatican Council, in the steps of my predecessors and in a faithful continuity with the bi-millenial Tradition of the Church” (First message of His Holiness Benedict XVI at the end of the Mass to the Sistine Chapel, April 20, 2005). In his speech to the Roman Curia where he criticizes a false “spirit of the Council”, the Pope Benedict XVI declares: “Forty years after the Council, we can stress that the positive one [?] is larger and more alive than than it appeared in the agitation of the years following 1968. We see today that the good seed, while developing slowly, grows however, and thus grows also our deep gratitude for the work achieved by the Council” (Short speech of the Pope Benedict XVI
*Well, so much for the unCatholic idea Holy Mother Church will just ignore or repudiate an Ecumenical Council or abandon a recently approved Liturgy
So, what about the premature triumphalism of the schim and its supporters?
In the dead of winter which is the schism, false hope springs eternal. C'est la vie
...the Second Vatican Council, in the steps of my predecessors and in a faithful continuity with the bi-millenial Tradition of the Church”
*My, my...fellay will not be amused. But, don't expect him to change course. He has too much invested, he has staked too much, he has promised too much, he has publicly taken too many doctrinal stands to just quit those positions. Only a legitimate miracle can get him to change. And if he doesn't change he will continue to lead many to perdition.
Maybe someone in the schism will have the audacious and radical idea to pray to Johannes Paulus Magnus that Fellay will have a change of heart. Fellay needs the intercession of such a great Saint. That Johannes Paulus Magnus is the antithesis of a Saint the schism considers acceptable, all the more Grace will redound to them when, in their humility, they seek intercession from the very Pope they hate. Such humility will not go unrewarded.
Is there anyone in the schism with such radical spiritual quality?