[Diva]

>Bruskewitz has tried to excommunicate the members of several groups to include the faithful who attend the Masses offered by priests of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX). In doing so, he has attacked the group that has done more than any other within the Church to preserve the Faith.<

SSPX is IN the Church? I thought there were meetings periodically between the Vatican and this group to bring them back into the Church?

[narses]

I just posted a link to a 27 page letter from the President of the Commission charged with that task to the Superior General. They (the SSPX) are, depending on your views, either just inside or just outside the Church, but not heretical nor schismatic according to the Cardinal President). It can be argued until the cows come home. The letter outlines (from the perspective of the Vatican) the issues remaining. The Vatican has essentailly given them an offer too good to refuse. It will be fascinating to see how the end game resolves itself. Somewhere there is an interview with the SG that gives his perspective. I don't recall if it is posted here, but in that he (Bp. Fellay) clearly acknowledges the Petrine authority, the validity of the New Mass, the validity of Vatican II as well as laying out the real barriers some in the Curia have erected against reconcilliation. We live in interesting times.