At least, not today. See here and here for the rumors du jour. Also, from the comments of that latter post, from someone styling himself Londiniensis, comes this marvelous bit (and I'm not even a Traditionalist):
M P, or not M P : that is the question;
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous waiting,
Or to take arms against the See of Peter,
By joining the Lefebvrists? To join: to pray;
No more abuses; no more tolerate
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
N O is heir to, ‘tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To join: to pray,
To pray, perchance to think, ay there’s the rub;
For in that prayer to God what thoughts may come
When we have shuffled off Obedience
Must give us pause: there’s the respect
That’s due to Peter and his heirs;
For who could bear the whips and scorns of Sin
Outside communion with the Holy Church?
The clerics’ bias, the bishops’ contumely,
The insolence of office, Rome’s delay
We must with patience and forbearance take.
For who would sever two millennia
With a bare bodkin? Why abuses bear,
Why grunt and sweat under a weary rite
But that the dread of something even worse:
Sectarian schism, born of Love but now
In Pride embittered and intemperate;
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus Conscience does cry “Patience” to us all;
And thus the metal base of revolution
Is now transmuted into Fortitude,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard are sure deployed within
And thus may inspire action. – Let us pray:
Oh Mary, Mother of the Church, in thy sweet prayers
Be all our hopes remember’d.
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