(RNS) "Dialogue with them is not easy.
The main problem with them is not the mass in Latin,
but the concept of tradition.
Do we want a living tradition or a petrified one?"

— Cardinal Walter Kasper, the Vatican's chief ecumenist, on talks
with the Society of Saint Pius X, a schismatic group that broke with the
Catholic Church decades ago and that Pope Benedict XVI is trying to woo
back into the fold. Kasper was quoted by Reuters.