..."Then everyone wonders why ordinary Catholics can no longer explain what the Church claims to possess that the world does not already have.
A sedevacantist looks at this and reaches an obvious conclusion.
A conservative Catholic searches for context.
A recognize-and-resist traditionalist constructs another distinction.
I understand all three reactions.
What becomes increasingly difficult is pretending there is no ecclesiological problem to explain.
Christ did not found a debating society whose final achievement would be its own disappearance.
He founded a Church.
And if the men claiming to govern that Church increasingly speak as though its mission is to dissolve itself into the universal fraternity of mankind, Catholics are entitled to ask a question far more serious than whether one quotation was awkwardly phrased.
Who taught them this religion?
And where, exactly, did ours go?"...
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