VATICAN CITY (AP) — A breakaway group of traditionalist Roman Catholics sent the Vatican mixed messages Thursday about ending a quarter-century of schism, indicating that there’s still no resolution in sight for realizing one of Pope Benedict XVI’s key priorities as pope.

The Swiss-based Society of St. Pius X said it had approved the technical, legal way it could eventually reconcile with the Holy See. But at the same time, it said it is still waiting for an “open and serious debate” to begin with the Vatican to bring church authorities around to its view of the “errors” of the modernizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council.