Pope meets with head of traditionalist SSPX [CC]

[commenter]

After the previous failure of regularization I would have agreed with you that it would be a gradual case by case basis but I seriously doubt that now. Neither side is talking of that type of resolution or regularization. Sspx bishops are expecting this pope to regularize them, the pope has expressed a desire to do so, and the society seems to want to move as a unit.

Arguably half of SSPX is already “regularized” into the Catholic Church right now, if you count FSSP, priests and seminarians of a few other communities that attract people who would have gone into SSPX. So the personal “come in when you are ready” has had mixed success.

I have belonged to Polish American parishes that regarded their ethnicity almost as an autonomous church within the Church, or as you say, a “unit”. For me, the only unit I wanted to be part of was the Catholic Church.