Despite his role on the Ecclesia Dei Commission, Card. Castrillon cannot authoritatively interpret Ecclesia Dei. As a legislative document, it is properly interpreted by the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts which stated:
This statement by the PCILT remains the latest authoritative statement by the Church on the Lefebvrist schism.
And it is common sense. To use the language of Ecclesia Dei, it was a schismatic act. The motu proprio did not say ‘it was not schism’. Of course it was schism.
Ecclesia Dei was signed by the Roman Pontiff, not by some Congregation. Some Cardinal, twenty years later, does not have the authority to reverse any of this, and why would he, or Benedict do that? To satisfy a remaining band who are in schism? It ain’t going to happen, and the howl from the Catholic faithful would be deafening if that should happen.
All they have to do is to return. They want to return, and ‘be right’. They are not going to do it.
Roma locuta est; casus finita est.
These people are in a State of Denial. What is there to defend? Return to the Church, admitting your error.
The Church cannot permit a small group to revolt, and then to return and demand that their agenda be followed. That the clock be turned back, and revert to an ecumenism that is contrary to the General Council of the Church, Vatican II.
The Lutherans tell us to lift the anathemas of the Council of Trent.
No, they will not be lifted until there is doctrinal conformity with Catholic theology.
Likewise, Lefebre and his followers.
Then the case is really closed.
peace