Dominican gives thumbs up to criticise French brothers

Archbishop Di Noia talks of retreat.

US Dominican Archbishop Gus DiNoia,  has told an American Catholic paper he believes "the dominant progressivism reading of the Second Vatican Council is in retreat" and this should make it easier to reconcile the so-called Lefebvrists with Rome.

"So Benedict has liberated us for the first time. You can now criticise De Lubac, Congar, Chenu" the American Dominican told the National Catholic Register.

Archbishop DiNoia said he was "sympathetic" towards the Lefebvrists and some of their concerns.

DiNoia was in the past elected provinical of his Dominican province in the US but the election was not upheld by the then Master of the Order, Timothy Radcliffe.

At the time there was much speculation as to why the worldwide head of the Dominican Order had not sanctioned DiNoia's election.