One of our blue suburbs has given up:
Wilmette has suspended enforcement of its 19-year-old ordinance banning handgun possession in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that appears to invalidate such ban.
Well, not as blue as Oak Park and Evanston. Oak Parkers wait with bated breath?
The Pius X society has said no:
The leader of a breakaway traditionalist Catholic group has rejected a Vatican offer to rejoin Rome, accusing Pope Benedict of trying to silence dissenting voices.
Bishop Bernard Fellay, head of the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) that broke with Rome 20 years ago, said conditions set by the Vatican amounted to muzzling the traditionalists who claim to be the only true Catholics since Church reforms in the 1960s.
Fellay, at the SSPX seminary in Winona, Minn., said. “They just say ‘shut up’ … we are not going … to shut up.”
That’s it, according to the Milan daily Il Giornale‘s well-informed Vatican expert Andrea Tornielli, who wrote, “Such favorable conditions for a return to full communion will in all probability not come again.”
Blithe Spirit 