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By Kennedy Hall, Crisis Magazine, March 6, 2026
Kennedy Hall is the author of multiple best-selling books. He is a freelance author, audiobook narrator and host of the podcast Mere Tradition with Kennedy Hall. He is married with six children and lives in Ontario, Canada. He can be contacted through, and his work can be found at www.kennedyhall.ca.
There are a host of Catholic commentators who express their disdain for the “disobedience” of the SSPX but at the same time find themselves disobedient to certain Vatican commands.
No conversation about the SSPX is complete without the word “obedience” being thrown around. And, in all fairness, the nature of obedience is really at the heart of the matter, so this makes sense. However, in the context of these conversations, the notion of obedience seems to frequently take on a character that exalts this particular virtue above all the rest. One gets the impression that modern Catholics have been formed with a Bible translation that presents St. Paul’s famous treatises on charity with the word “charity” translated as “obedience”: “And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three,” Paul writes, “but the greatest of these is obedience.” …Related posts
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