Trying to get the U.S. Bishops to Oppose Pope Benedict (SSPX Related)

Peter Steinfels wrote a piece the other day in the NYT that basically is trying ignite a fire under Benedict over the excommunication issue. See The Holocaust Furor and the U.S. Bishops

Who knew "Progressive" Catholics were such fans of excommunications.

Cosmos Sex and Liturgy has a great response to this attempt basically have Bishops dissent in a public way from Pope Benedict's path on this issue. See Who Will Speak Up First?

The whole thing is a pretty good read. As we are learning this has little to do with the Jews. They are just being used for cover. Cosmos states in part:

I suspect that Steinfels’s problem is primarily that he shares the view of the SSPX, whether he would admit it or not. That is, that Vatican II marked a rupture with the pre-conciliar Church and if there is a chance at all of bringing SSPX back in, this would upset his premise. If it is possible to reconcile SSPX, then the Bologna school’s interpretation is all the more clearly reprobate than he might like to believe. The hope of the Common Ground initiative to raise dissent to respectability and thereby firmly entrenching it in the US Church as a legitimate perspective, will have been further dashed.