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He cannot obey an intrinsically wrong order and then worry about the consequences later. So the question comes down to this, "Should Fr. Zigrang have followed the order to cease offering the Latin Mass, or was he required in conscience to refuse this order?" He decided that he was required in conscience to refuse the order, because to obey the order would be to make oneself complicit in the deaths of many innocent souls.

The assumption here is that the Novus Ordo is lacking, it is a Mass, and to say otherwise invites the Bishop to act.

As it turned out, Fr. Zigrang only said the Latin Mass once in his parish, because the bishop responded with such lightning speed. When a pederast is sodomizing young parishioners, bishops seem to require years or in some cases even decades to respond.

I disagree. I have been right where such an action occurred, in the 70s. As soon as the Priest was found in a homosexual act (with an adult), he was gone right away. You can't point at another wrong and say, "but he is doing other bad things", when you are older than 9.

Saying that we should not act in one case of wrong, when we did not act in another wrong, in not the correct course of action. We can agree all wrongs that a Bishop sees must be acted on with equal priority. I agree they come down on Traditionalists faster than liberals, thats because the faithful liberals will appease the Bishop, because they have so scruples like we have. The Traditionalist will not appease the Bishop in any way, and then often leave the whole Church, leaving his brethren to fend for themselves.

Saying that we should not act in one case of wrong, when we did not act in another wrong, in not the correct course of action.

But offering the Latin Mass can never be categorized as a "wrong." In the newspapers of this very day, we have a story where a predator priest trolled for gay sex on several gay websites, travelling to Las Vegas and other locations for rendevous with gay partners, especially young ones. Numerous letters were sent to his bishop by parishioners protesting the appointment of this sexual pervert as their pastor. The bishop rebuked the parishioners, not the pastor. Until finally the Roman Catholic Faithful posted the pastor's gay internet exchanges for all to see. The bishop continues to praise the pervert's wonderful "pastoral leadership" and intends to put him back in a parish after he returns from counseling.

Let's face it, this is a "wrong." This is wrong, wrong, wrong. Saying the Latin Mass, on the other hand, is not a "wrong." As a matter of fact, it is a "right," one which was guaranteed to all Catholics for all futurity of time.