Here is my response to Doctor White's e-mail.
Dear Dr. White,
The SSPX is well aware of all the items in your bill of particulars, and more besides, and deplores them as energetically, and much more knowledgeably, than you or I.
But it also teaches, as the Church has always taught, that since the Pope is the pope, he must be obeyed unless he commands evil or that which clearly conduces to evil. So when he requires obedience, one must make a prudential examination and decision regarding whether to obey or not. When the possibility of a no-strings regularization (RIP) was floated, Bp. Fellay went through that process, and concluded that in this case, the Society was obliged to pursue that possibility.
In addition, I have been looking carefully, and thus far have seen no evidence of any softening of Bishop Fellay’s opposition to conciliar errors. Everybody from Bishop Williamson through the bomb throwers of the blogosphere have asserted such a softening have said as much, but they’ve offered nothing to back it up.
So my question is: what do you know, theologically or factually, that the SSPX and its supporters don’t? As near as I can tell, the answer is: nothing.
If Josef Ratzinger has forfeited papal authority as a result of his errors for as long as he persists in his errors, where do I look for the Church in the meantime? To the sum of (Orthodox Bishop/Priest 1 and his flock) + (Orthodox Bishop/Priest 2 and his flock) + …. + (Orthodox Bishop/Priest N and his flock)? That looks very little like the Church as Our Lord and Savior established it, and very little like how it has continued since then. It looks very much like, well, Protestantism.
No, you don’t believe in the Church as it has always understood itself. You believe in the Church as it has always understood itself, except that certain doctrines regarding the constitution of the papacy, and of course indefectibility, must be put down in the church basement, and remain there until the first to occur of (a) the return of the popes to orthodoxy or (b) Judgment Day.
You can’t deny the Pope’s authority and still have the Church. So what you and Father Ringrose are propounding is an ecclesiological ѕυιcιdє pact – destroying our own village in order to save it.
Mother Mary, seat of wisdom, pray for him who holds the seat of Peter, and for us poor scattered sheep.