The Pope Moves Forward In Dialog With Society of St Pius X

On July 2nd Pope Benedict XVI released an apostolic letter officially delegating all future doctrinal discussions with the Society of St. Pius X to the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith. To me this looks like a promising move towards future examination of the Vatican II documents. For those who have interpreted these documents in light of Church Tradition it will pose no difficulties. For those however who have for the past 40 years tried to hijack the documents and conjure up new teachings which clearly went against the Tradition of the Church, it will be a wake up call. Of course it is no news that the Vatican II documents were of a different nature than the documents released in other Ecumenical councils before it. The documents were drafted to give guidance on how to implement the Catholic faith in light of modern culture, addressing such issues that fell into the bioethics realm for example, which past Councils had not had to deal with because of recent technological advances. This new dialog will hopefully produce more material to work from regarding aplogetics as well. The English translation is on the EWTN website.