On the same day that the breakaway Society of St. Pius X announced that it had turned down the Vatican’s deadline for reconciliation with Rome, an affiliated traditionalist group in Scotland declared itself back in the fold.

Maybe the hardest-core followers of the late French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre will never be reconciled to a post-Vatican II church; but the pope’s decision last year to revive the Traditional Latin Mass seems to have chipped away at traditionalist resistance.

The Cardinal in charge of dealings with liturgical traditionalists told the official Vatican newspaper in March that “many people have asked to return to full communion and some have already done so” in response to the return of the Latin Mass.