I know you can't judge a book by its cover, but I was struck by this photo of His Excellency Bishop Bernard Fellay, SSPX. Doesn't His Excellency just look like a Successor of the Apostles should look?
The SSPX does not have a monopoly on exuding this sort of demeanor (Did anyone catch the FSSP ordinations I posted about?). But, many bishops seem to have forgotten that they are custodians of an office that demands they act the part, which certainly includes the outward signs of respect and regality. Perhaps if the SSPX is "reconciled" with the Church, they will be the leaven that leavens the batch in this and many other regards.
In fact, Bishop Fellay said that very thing in his Pentecost sermon: "It seems clear that, if we are wanted, it is to re-introduce Tradition in the Church, if we can speak like this." [Taken from the translation available on Rorate Caeli].
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