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1. The Vatican will begin again to grovel before the SSPX in order to welcome fellow right wingers back into the fold.

   Posted By: John Donahue

2. What a relief!! The last thing we need is more right-wing fundamentalists to add to the mix.

   Posted By: Peter H Lyall

3. Who are the SSPX traditionalist Catholics to sit in judgement on the broader Church and reject the overtures of Rome to come back into the fold?
   They are a schismatic group which holds the reforms of the Second Vatican Council in contempt and who have nothing to offer the Church apart from a return to a medieval Catholicism which was rejected by the attending bishops in the early 1960's. It is time to stop wasting energy on this group.
   They have chosen their course and should be allowed to continue on their pathway to extinction.

   Posted By: Mike Jones

4. Actually, we 'need' everyone - regardless of left or right.
   I don't see the Vatican grovelling before the SSPX.
   They dissented on the conservative side.
   Many more have dissented on the liberal side - but Lefebvre and the bishops he consecrated, are among the very very few actually excommunicated by Rome in the past 40 years.
   They still believe (nearly?) everything taught by the Church so it should be priority to help them integrate if possible - but without compromising Truth.
   It seems the Vatican is standing firm on this principle.

   Posted By: Mike

5. I cannot believe that the Vatican spends so much time and energy on this schismatic group when there are so many scandals and serious matters of pastoral concern in the Catholic Church world wide.
   The SSPX still, on their own admission, rejects ecumenism, religious freedom and still do not renounce anti-Semitism. Enough said!

   Posted By: Margaret M. Coffey

6. Mike: It's nice that you admit that the Church needs 'everyone', including the dissenters.
   I believe the 'dissenters' are more likely to be the prophets than otherwise.

   Posted By: Francis

7. Waste of time. Let them stew in their own schismatic juice.

   Posted By: JR,Sydney

8. Will be wonderful to welcome back our traditional brothers and sisters.
   I pray that a compromise is reached so that the SSPX can rejoin Rome.
   Will be awesome to see their traditional values once again flowing through the church.
   Pope Benedict XVI needs to be commended on his persistant olive branch to traditional Anglicans and now the SSPX.

   Posted By: David Rabe

9. Can it be that some of us have forgotten the parable of the good shepherd? We have to keep trying! How can we just leave our brothers and sisters sit in darkness?
   I have to say that the bitterness evident in the tone of many of the people on this discussion board is both surprising and saddening.
   Surely we should try to be more Christ-like and loving?

   Posted By: Paul Keen

10. Funny how religious liberty seems to apply to absolutely everybody except the SSPX.

    Posted By: Adam Armstrong

11. Let SSPX go their own way. No point in bringing them back; it would only cause more problem. Just leave them be.

    Posted By: joechia

12. Why do we continue to crawl to this mob who will not accept the teachings of the church?

    Posted By: James Evans

13. For heaven's sake, Paul Keen: 'Christ-like and loving?'
    Our Lord Himself advised his disciples that if people failed to listen, to shake the dust of their shoes and keep moving,
    There are none so blind or so deaf as the SSPX.
    As far as their leadership is concerned, it is not they that sit in darkness.
    This is not bitterness but sheer exasperation.

    Posted By: JR,Sydney

14. Many of the comments here do not reflect what Jesus Christ said.
    During the Last Supper Our Lord prayed for the unity of all His disciples, so that the world may believe He was sent by the Father.
    It is thus a biblical imperative to heal whatever wounds exist in the fractious body of Christ.
    As with the establishment of the Anglican ordinariates, Pope Benedict is the Pope of Christian unity.

    Posted By: Andrew Rabel

15. And one of their bishops has written that women should not attend university and, on another occasion, they should not wear trousers.

    Posted By: Francis

16. I have to agree with some of you when saying to let the SSPX go, for now. Not out of bitterness, but following what Our Lord says in the Gospel: If a brother in error, correct him one on one.
    If he continues, have some members of the community and you talk to him.
    If he continues, have the whole community correct him.
    If he insists in being in error, let him be.
    Of course, those are not the exact words but I hope all will understand what I mean.
    The Pope has done what he can.
    Pray for unity. That is all we can do.

    Posted By: Tito

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