The Society of St. Pius X is “open” to dialogue until it isn’t. Its alleged “openness” is contingent upon the conversation taking place only if it does so based upon the Society’s ground rules. In stark terms, what the Society is asserting is that it believes in papal authority and desires full communion with that authority, but that the Second Vatican Council and the post-conciliar popes have forfeited their authority by teaching doctrinal error, creating a grave crisis that legitimates disobedience to the papal magisterium.
