The Vatican is close to an agreement with the Society of St Pius X (SSPX), Catholic Culture reports, quoting an analysis from French newspaper Le Figaro.
The French daily predicts that a meeting to be held between the SSPX leader, Bishop Bernard Fellay, and key Vatican officials will lead to a resolution of the split that began in 1998.
The Vatican and SSPX recently concluded a series of talks on theological issues, designed to identity the points on which the SSPX questions the teachings of Vatican II.
Catholic Culture said that, according to Le Figaro, the proposed agreement would state that the issues raised by the SSPX are not fundamental doctrines of the Church, and it is possible to question them without challenging the authority of Church teaching.