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I am a Cahtolic. I adhere to the Faith - what has always been taught, in the same sense, nothing confused or equivocated. The SSPX is only doing what the saints did for 1960 years.

I am a convert to the Faith. My primary teachers were old books - lives of the Saints. What I saw in my first years as a Catholic in the novus ordo had little resemblance to those books. It was more like a bad performance of play-acting Protestantism. My first taste of sanity from modern writers was in the New Oxford Review. One thing led to another until I found the least compromise and silliness in traditional priests.

Bishop Williamson is not a dictator nor is he the founder of a new religion. At present he is the rector of the seminary in Argentina. That is the only thing he has direct authority over. He is actually under the District Superior for South America. The Society bishops do not exercise jurisdiction. The SSPX is not a parallel church. Their purpose is the formation of priests and the care of the souls served by those priests.

The Society recognizes the Hierarchy of the Church and the respect that is due to their office. What they do not recognize is is their actions which are unlawful. The US Supreme Court had no right to legalize abortion. The hierarchy of the Catholic Church has no right to change the Mass or Church teachings. When this hierarchy acts outside the law of God the Catholic is still obliged to obey God and not these men.

The hierarchy of the Catholic Church has no right to change the Mass

Actually, my friend, they do. The problem is that in the most recent case, Satan affected them enough to give us a ridiculous clown show with rarely a modicum of reverence or dignity. However, even the most hideous and clownish protestantized NO Mass is a valid Mass if they follow enough of the rubrics for it to be so.

Ugly, clownish, banal, gay, unfocused, irreverent, liberal and stupid may please certain folks as much as it disgusts you and I, but it does not necessarily make the Mass invalid. If the Pope says we must stand on our heads for three minutes of every Mass, then you will see me standing on my head (and grumbling, of course).

(Shhhhh! Don't let that standing on the head thing get out, or the lavender liberal modernists might make it the newest innovation in the Amchurch liturgy.)