Pope meets excommunicated Archbishop to heal divide

The Pope met the head of the ultraconservative movement founded by the excommunicated Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre today amid a renewed push to bring the "schismatic" group back into Rome’s fold.

Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said the meeting between the Pope Benedict XVI and Monsignor Bernard Fellay, secretary general of the Society of St. Pius X, was held “in a climate of love for the church and a desire to arrive at perfect communion.”