This question was put to me recently and it was emphasized that St. Benedict, the main founder of monastic life, despised priests and monks who were not under the authority of any bishop. The resistance bishops exercise no authority over the priests of the resistance. Indeed, Bp. Williamson himself said that it would be akin to "herding wild cats"! But, in the Holy Roman Catholic Church, there is no such concept as an "independent priest" and it seems that the KY situation is a sad example of what happens when priests have no one authority over them. Here's what St. Benedict says in his Rule.....
The third kind of monks, a detestable kind, are the Sarabaites.
These, not having been tested,
as gold in the furnace (Wis. 3:6),
by any rule or by the lessons of experience,
are as soft as lead.
In their works they still keep faith with the world,
so that their tonsure marks them as liars before God.
They live in twos or threes, or even singly,
without a shepherd,
in their own sheepfolds and not in the Lord's.
Their law is the desire for self-gratification:
whatever enters their mind or appeals to them,
that they call holy;
what they dislike, they regard as unlawful.
The fourth kind of monks are those called Gyrovagues.
These spend their whole lives tramping from province to province,
staying as guests in different monasteries
for three or four days at a time.
Always on the move, with no stability,
they indulge their own wills
and succuмb to the allurements of gluttony,
and are in every way worse than the Sarabaites.
Of the miserable conduct of all such
it is better to be silent than to speak.