Bear @aquinasbear The SSPX Crisis is not an Abstraction I have tried to stay out of the tribal warfare surrounding the SSPX because I do not belong to anyone’s faction. I just want to be left alone to practice the orthodox Faith. I am a convert, but I am not an uninformed one. Before entering the Catholic Church, I studied Catholic theology, Church history, papal authority, canon law, Vatican II, Tradition, and the Magisterium. I read the Summa cover to cover. I have continued studying ever since. I understand why the consecration of bishops without a papal mandate is treated as an extraordinarily grave canonical act. I also understand why the SSPX believes that a state of necessity exists. Both are true. What I cannot ignore is the glaring difference between the severity shown toward the SSPX and the patience Rome repeatedly extends elsewhere. Rome negotiates in secret with a Chinese government that intrudes into the appointment of bishops. It tolerates years of open doctrinal pr...