PREFACE
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n the midst of the crisis through which the Church, in her human element, has been passing for more than five decades, anyone who intends to remain authentically Catholic has a twofold challenge, both doctrinal and spiritual. To speak first of doctrine: faced with the indisputable divergence of the modern magisterium from the Tradition of all time, every Catholic must hold fast to the latter, offering a filial but firm resistance to unlawful innovations. This is not disobedience but rather a dutiful and painful obedience to the one Truth, which is God. Indeed, “this merely apparent disobedience is actually a more perfect form of obedience” (p. 22), and has its roots in a genuinely Catholic vision of the Mystical Body of Christ: “It is the Church’s understanding of the mystery of transcendence that allows obedient souls, respectfully but firmly to refuse to comply with the hierarchy’s decrees when they clearly conflict with the safe path of tradition” (p. 62). 5
