Archbishop Gomez is acting in a way we would wish all bishops to act. He is the ordained and consecrated successor of the apostles of Jesus. He is responsible for the actions of his helpers, his priests. Yet he probably doesn't even know these SSPX priests. He certainly hasn't given them permission to preach in his diocese and he certainly hasn't given them the function to hear confessions, so as far as he should be concerned, they are acting in an illegal, disobedient, and unaccountable manner. Any man who claims to be a Roman Catholic priest should be accountable to the bishop. Yet the SSPX priests operate in a manner that completely opposes ecclesial authority. Archbishop Gomez is right to obstruct such men, and until the phantom motu proprio appears, either rescinding, clarifying, or expanding " Ecclesia Dei" every bishop who confronts the SSPX will be in the right.
“Archbishop Gomez is acting in a way we would wish all bishops to act...”
Your “we” does not include me. I expect honesty, not hypocracy from a bishop. Referring to the SSPXers as “not Catholic” IMO either shows ignorance unbefiting a bishop, deliberate deception, or both.
“He is the ordained and consecrated successor of the apostles of Jesus...”
Judas, who is emulated by far too many bishops, was also an apostle of Jesus.
“He is responsible for the actions of his helpers, his priests.”
Then he should be doing something about the liturgical abuse, wreckovated churches, modernism, and heteroxy present in his diocese.
“Yet he probably doesn’t even know these SSPX priests.”
But I’ll bet he knows many of the rabbis and Protestant ministers.
“He certainly hasn’t given them permission to preach in his diocese....”
Nor would he, if asked.
“Yet the SSPX priests operate in a manner that completely opposes ecclesial authority.....”
This opposition to “eccesiastical authority” includes such things as keeping the Faith and worship traditions of our ancestors and his.