Benedict XVI and Bishop Fellay
If you are willing to invest a little time, you'll find some very helpful background and analysis of the issues around the pope, his lifting the SSPX excommunications and the remarks of the Holocaust denying bishop - all in this report by much-respected Italian Vaticanista, Sandro Magister.
I encourage you to take a look at Magister's article. You may not find yourself feeling any more positively about this week's stories but I can assure that you will have a deeper, more inform understanding of them.
-ConcordPastor
Thanks for providing us with this additional information. John Allen has another good piece just posted on NCR.
ReplyDeleteI still wonder why the pope wants this group to come back into the fold. I think it would have been a better idea to let them continue to cool their heels or spin their wheels until they have a change of heart re their reactionary views. They should be the ones asking for reconciliation, not the other way around.