SSPX Comments About the Pope's Anglican Ordinarates

Father Z and others have discussed how the Pope's reconciliation of Anglicans through the canonical structure of Personal Ordinariates will like pave the way for a similar canonical structure for regularizing the traditionalist Society of Saint Pius X.

Well, Bishop Fellay of the SSPX has recently said something about this gesture to the Anglicans. Suprisingly, it's positive.

The following is from a German interview with Bishop Fellay at kreuz.net.

I'll give the German first and then the English. I did my best with my own "doctoral student ad-hoc" translation:

Hoffnungsschimmer im trüben ÖkumenismusZur Rückkehr traditioneller Anglikaner sagte Mons. Fellay:

"Das ist großartig. Das ist eine große Freude. Es gibt nur ein Schiff, das zum Himmel fährt, und das ist die Katholische Kirche. Wenn Abtrünnige zurückkehren, ist das erst recht eine große Freude.“

Mons. Fellay betrachtet es als Hoffnungszeichen, daß das in den gegenwärtigen, ziemlich trüben Umständen des Ökumenismus“ geschieht.

Here's the English translation (if there are any German speakers out there, please correct me):

A glimmer of hope among murky Ecumenism
Regarding the return of traditional Anglicans Bishop Fellay said:

"This is great. This is a big joy. There is only one ship that goes to Heaven, and this is the Catholic Church. When apostates return, it is surely a grand joy."

Bishop Fellay looks at it as a hopeful sign during what presently: "happens to be quite murky circumstances of (Vatican) ecumenism."

So there you have it. A bishop of the SSPX has said something positive about Rome's posture to non-Catholics. That's certainly a feather in Pope Benedict's mitre.

HT: John Hunwicke, William Tighe

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