This is the one big point people miss. Hobson writes under authority of a exiled hierarchy. What's baffling is that Catholics [in good faith] don't hesitate to believe in the hidden [exiled] Great French Monarch [or his lineage] which is private revelation, however more than hesitate to believe in a hidden pope ... which is part of the faith from the Vatican Council. (Peter will have perpetual successors until the end of time).
People become frustrated because they want answers, yet Hobson is just a weak vessel who punches the keys and ultimately never has the final say, as an obeidient layman.