Interestingly, Bishop Sanborn did not cast any aspersions on Bishop Williamson or Vigano when he responded to the email question (unless I missed it).
Good observation. We’re not focusing on the politics of the competing trad orders, just trying to put their actions into the context of Catholic tradition.
If any Bishop can proceed, creatively on his own, like Bp. Joe “Santeria” Pfeiffer, then there are problems.
Of course, we all understand this is a Church crisis and we require emergency tactics to survive.
This point has been made many times to Bp. Williamson, pleading for him to ordain and put more priest into the field.
But the answer is always the same, that such things cannot be expedited. But when it comes to giving Vigano his trad certification… it’s “no problemo.”
With such secret priorities, one would not be surprised to find Opus Dei, crypto-trad Bishops running trad news media outlets.