I agree with Daniel (a confrère in the Dr. Bombay fan club) on the quality of the article. However, I have a further problem under two headings. First, the triumphalism of the article is reminiscent of my old High School Research Papers where I would read a source and only pick out of it the things that made my point while avoiding the points in the same source that discredited my position. So, with that in mind I find vast parts of the article intellectually dishonest. Second, and related to the first, is the the painting of the normative parishes in the Church as a sort of hospital across from a graveyard. Not only is this characterization untrue it is unfounded. While all are willing to admit that there are problems I don’t think that many would be willing to paint as bleak a picture as the author has in his article.
On the positive side I like the questions that he asked as I have had them myself including what will happen to the quasi or even formal communities that surround the current indult communities. I also share his fear of placing the prior latin rites in the hands of those he calls “Fr. Elton John’s.” I was also interested by the comments expressed by Bishop Fellay.
Unfortunately I don’t see a future readmission of the SSPX as a whole as many will still stay away from Holy Mother Church similar to the case of the Eastern Orthodox and the so called Eastern Catholic Churches. I think that this is evidenced by the hermeneutic of suspicion from whence they come coupled with a near pathological false idealism of the Church prior to the Second Vatican Council. But I will remain optimistic about this point because of the success of Campos.
