It’s best to stop with the pious pretenses. What has happened with the Society of Saint Pius X is not an accident, nor a sudden outburst, nor a “flight forward”. It is the logical outcome of a perfectly recognizable Roman strategy: buy time, stretch out conversations, postpone decisions, and trust that biology would do the dirty work. Four bishops consecrated by Lefebvre, increasingly elderly. A simple calculation: wait for them to die and, once the dog is dead, the rabies is gone.
For thirty years, negotiations have taken place without actually negotiating. Meetings, letters, commissions, amiable gestures, ambiguous statements, prolonged silences. A lot of movement, no structural progress. No stable canonical solution. No solid sacramental guarantee. No legal framework that couldn’t be reversed by the next bureaucrat with delegated signature. Everything provisional, everything conditional, everything reversible. The house specialty.
Rome didn’t want to resolve the “FSSPX problem”; it wanted to manage it until its natural extinction. And that explains the infinite patience, the cordiality without fruits, and the systematic refusal to address the real core of the matter: the objective continuity of the episcopal and sacramental ministry for a living, growing reality with real vocations. Meanwhile, the same old mantra was repeated: wait, trust, we’ll see, now is not the time.
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