Rorate Caeli

Fellay to visit the Pope at Castelgandolfo?

The month of August begins in a couple of days -- almost one year since the first and only meeting of Pope Benedict with the Superior-General of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X (FSSPX/SSPX), Bishop Bernard Fellay.

Paolo Luigi Rodari* suggests today, in an article on the summer "projects" of Pope Benedict, published in the Roman daily Il Tempo, that:

Castelgandolfo is also the place in which the Pontiff loves to receive, in a private fashion, many personalities whom he has not been able to meet during the year. [The possibility] that Bernard Fellay, Superior General of the Fraternity of Saint Pius X (the schismatic community of priests founded by Marcel Lefebvre), will arrive at the Roman hills is not excluded. In the month of August, Ratzinger could readmit the Fraternity to the bosom of the Church of Rome.


* Caveat : this is the same journalist who wrote, last Palm Sunday, that a document on the liberalization of the Traditional Mass would be signed or released during Holy Week.