Asked if Vatican officials had changed their minds during the talks, which began in late 2009, he said: "I don't think that you can say that." He said the pope "has a certain sympathy for us, but within limits."

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The SSPX, which claims several hundred thousand followers around the world, created the only recent schism in the Church by ordaining the four bishops without Vatican approval in 1988.