Letter to a Catholic Bewildered by Church Crisis

Dear Friend,

Thank you for writing to me with your questions and objections. I will plunge right in.

You note with sadness that, in your opinion, the SSPX is living “by a kind of privatization of religious authority.” You say they “operate in an ecclesially autonomous fashion.”

To me, the great scandal, indeed mysterium iniquitatis of our age, is that even…