Over the weekend I watched a video by a certain self-appointed “uniter of tribes” discussing the SSPX controversy. Once again, he expressed total disbelief that the pleasant men in the Vatican could possibly want to suppress the beauty of the Traditional Latin Mass, or sideline the SSPX for that matter.>For Mr. “My-family-has-been-doing-this-for-decades-so-keep-quiet-we-know-what-we-are-doing,” it is all merely a misunderstanding. A blind spot on the part of Prevost and his henchmen. According to this common fantasy, all that is needed is a polite conversation, after which smiling Bob from Chicago will suddenly declare: “Of course. Now I see the problem. Sorry about all that. You may keep your Latin Mass and your Tradition.” And then, in the comforting world of Planet Catholic Dissonance, harmony will be restored.>Allow me then, through the latest dispatches from the Synodal Loony Bin, to offer Mr. Zippit and his fellow “Latin Mass only” conservatives a small reality check.

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