It's funny, but over the last couple days I've been reflecting on the SSPX situation, and how its various leaders are now quoting Archbishop Lefebvre to justify contradictory offers. Some, like Fr. Aulagnier if I am not mistaken, feel that Lefebvre would have accepted Rome's recent offer. Others don't. Who is right?
In a limited way, probably both. We humans are self-contradictory at times; we also like to create God in our own image. This is why Christ gave us the Roman papacy, so we would always know where the Church is. Take your eye off the papacy and you get chaos and contradiction.
It's kind of ironic and pathetic that instead of asking, "What would Jesus do?" they ask. "What would Lefebvre have done?"
Just a couple of random thoughts/cliches regarding this situation. #1-The Roman Catholic Church is not a democracy. I would like to think that members of the hierarchy seriously listen to the members of the Church, but listen to God first. Seems to me that His plans would trump anyone else's. #2-Too many cooks spoil the soup. JP2 is our man (and more importantly God's man) for now, like it or not. His word is law. Deal with it.