WILLIAM F. Strojie was a great early commenter on the Vatican II Crisis, rightly rejecting both Modernism and “Traditionalism.”

His views on the papacy, however, were confused and ultimately illogical, similar to what is known today as the Cassiciacum Thesis, or the argument that it is possible to be a pope and not be a pope at the same time.

Here’s a balanced analysis of Strojie’s shortcomings, which he might very well have recognized had he been given more time.

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