How many of us laymen can deal with this level of intelligent sophistry? Very, very few. And those that CAN see through it would have a heck of a time rebutting it in their coffee & donut halls after Mass, when old ladies print out this letter and shove it in our faces.
The essential problem with this attempt to reframe the debate as a question of people having inordinate curiousity and vigilance, is that it completely dodges the point that the TRUTH of what is going on matters and is the business of Catholics.
When Father Rostand told people the doctrinal preamble is not the business of the laity - that is a JOKE.
Why do people follow the SSPX in the first place?
Is Bishop Fellay their ordinary?
No one follows the SSPX to blindly submit to authority leading back to Vatican II.
That is completely senseless!
All these attacks on the critics are BESIDES THE POINT.
These people, when they're wrong, they ALWAYS resort to blackening the reputation of their critics. Without fail.
They CAN'T TELL THE TRUTH - so when the fire is held to their feet as it ought to be - they try to tell their interlocutors to be "be charitable" "accept God's will" "know your place" - the last thing they will ever do is BE HONEST. They are seemingly incapable of it.