The SSPX is not wrong about the crisis in the Church. The collapse of belief, the loss of reverence, the suppression of the Traditional Mass, and the moral confusion of recent decades are real and undeniable. Too many Catholics pretend otherwise. But a correct diagnosis does not automatically justify the cure being proposed. In my latest piece for Catholic Unscripted , I argue that the deepest problem raised by the SSPX is not liturgical but ecclesiological. Once we claim that the Church can bind the faithful to something intrinsically harmful, we are no longer defending Tradition. We are quietly abandoning a core Catholic principle about the indefectibility of the Church herself. This essay takes the SSPX seriously, acknowledges what they see clearly, and explains why their reasoning ultimately leads to a dangerous dead end, one that fragments rather than preserves. If you care about Tradition, unity, and the promises of Christ to His Church, I think you’ll find this worth your ti...
