Though this weblog has been suspended "in perpetuity" for quite some time now{1}, recent news did give me a reason to post one small update to it for the sake of avoiding any possible confusion. The story worth reporting since this weblog's indefinite suspension is Pope Benedict XVI's lifting of the suspensions of the 4 Bishops of the SSPX. I wrote on the matter the other day at Rerum Novarum in the following thread of expository musings:

On the Recent Controversy of the Reinstatement of the SSPX's Bishops in General and of Bishop Richard Williamson in Particular (circa February 18, 2009)

Those who still stumble across this inactive weblog can go there to get a macro overview of how I view this matter. And of course this event will inexorably involve certain presumptions made by not a few apart from the issue of Bishop Williamson's whackjob views on the Holocaust. The SSPX seems to believe that they have been vindicated already on the issue of the previous legality of the old Roman Missal's usage by what Pope Benedict XVI wrote in his motu proprio of July 7, 2007. I did not want to suspend this weblog indefinitely without touching one final time on that subject so I refer to that treatment here{2} for those who either have forgotten or who have come across this weblog in an internet search and wondered how the statements of the SSPX and the Pope jive with what was written here previously on the matter. As those who peruse that thread will see, the essence of the SSPX's previous position on the matter was not tenable and that does not change even though the current pope changed the legal standing of the older liturgical form in the Catholic Church as of September 14, 2007 from what it was with few exceptions after November 30, 1969.{3}

There is also the issue of whether the excommunications were or were not valid and I have dealt in the past with them and the verdict there is unchanging.{4} But that point aside, the fact that the aforementioned excommunications were lifted makes this argument only important for historical reasons and certainly I nor anyone else who previously wrote for this weblog would question the authority of the pope to make the decision that he made on this matter. Reintegration will take time but this action by the Pope at the request of Bishop Fellay is an important step in that process.

Anyway, as the news of the lifting of the excommunications was in the context of "traditionalist" issues quite an unexpected and momentous circumstance, I judged it as necessary to update this weblog to both reflect this matter as it pertains to past materials posted here and also to note that I and I have no doubt the other former writers at this site are pleased to see this development and hope that it progresses to the point to where there is full communion between the SSPX and the Catholic Church. As for the Bishop Williamson controversy, I have gone over it in the aforementioned Rerum Novarum link from February 18, 2009 and I refer interested parties to it at this time.

But having made this notation to the archives of the Lidless Eye Inquisition for the sake of readers who run across it in online searches and the like -or for those who remembered this weblog and were curious to see how the latest news impacts what was covered here at sundry times and in divers manners in years gone by, I reiterate at this time that the archives remain for those who want to peruse them but this weblog once again is in its activity terminated in perpetuity all things to the contrary notwithstanding.

Notes:

{1} The Suspension of The Lidless Eye Inquisition In Perpetuity (circa July 21, 2007)

{2} On Juridical Abrogation of the 1962 Roman Missal (circa July 8, 2007)

{3} For a brief treatment, see the thread in footnote two. For more detail on this matter should that be of interest, there is always this posting:

Revisiting the Latin Mass 1995 Cardinal Stickler Interview (circa December 13, 2005)

{4} A Prescription Against 'Traditionalism' Part IX (circa 2000, rev. 2003)