Authority resembles those secret agents dear to Graham Greene who conceal their identity so as not to lose it further during a bad encounter. She still has a few admirers who love her and deploy treasures of ingenuity to define her, redefine her, so that she is understood in her time. To do this, they bring her closer to tradition, to honor, to hierarchy, to natural law... they constantly give her a cane, crutches, a tripod, so that she can still get out of his hiding place and get some fresh air. The words to which they attach authority resemble bandages, cautery, which, in the end, hide it a little more. The disenchantment has been pronounced for a long time and is increasing. Nothing can save authority, everything that it inspires brings to mind old things that we know how to do without. It is of no use. It is of no use.
Authority, in its Latin sense, comes from auctor which means “one who increases”, and from auctoritas , which has “power to impose obedience”. Authority is equated with power, which we forget when separating power and authority. On the other hand, it is a power without power, it does not constrain. Its field of action is born from ethics, knowledge, belief... Because it requires obedience. This is where we begin to stumble over its meaning, because the times do not like obedience. And, as the era no longer appreciates belief, it denigrates authority. It devalues it, it identifies it with cowardly and blind power. She gives him a nickname that has become an implication: authoritarianism . As if to reveal what she hides under her mask of leniency: a brutal, violent and unstable character. It must be unmasked. She must be slandered. Above all, we must no longer understand anything, and what is not understanding anything if not a new form of belief? Authority imposes limits that no one wants anymore, which oblige and prevent us from being what we want. The era believes that it is by being what we desire that we will be what we deserve. Individualism reigns supreme, and unchallenged. No one knows better than you what is good for you. Let’s take it for granted! As it was necessary to ignore limits and hierarchy, the era threw authority aside after having put it on the picket line. Authority catalyzed modernity. She had to be subdued.
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More than fifty years ago, the Catholic Church gave itself a new Mass which broke in a way never seen before with the tradition of the Church. The reformers, however, did not expect the traditional Mass to continue for them. They were even convinced of the contrary. abolition of the traditional Roman mass 
Few traditional mass centers have started without a core of parishioners willing to pray in the traditional form. Yet this is what happened in Sainte Marie de Warrington, a medium-sized town located between Liverpool and Manchester, in the northwest of England. The Benedictine monks of Ampleforth Abbey had built this large and beautiful neo-Gothic church in 1870. But for lack of vocations they had to entrust Saint Mary to the diocese which, for the same reason, soon had only one alternative. : closure or Fraternité Saint-Pierre. One could thus summarize the choice offered by the Archbishop of Liverpool to his flock: Eleison or Morrison (Morrison is the English equivalent of Leclerc supermarkets). Rather than let their beautiful church become a shopping center (or an indoor climbing center as happened for another church in the city), the faithful decided to try the Mass in Latin. In 2015, the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter was therefore invited to take over the management of this church. 
As all the buildings belong to us, and with the approval of the local archbishop, the entire ministry is carried out according to the liturgical and disciplinary traditions described in the Constitutions of the FSSP. Before our arrival, and in the first months, several meetings allowed parishioners to ask questions to which our priests answered, explaining the theological and spiritual reasons for Latin, the posture of the priest turned towards God, the absence of lay ministers of Holy Communion etc. About three quarters of the community remained. Since then, many other devotees have arrived. For many, the first Holy Week in 2016 was a revelation. Other parishioners said they discovered the significance of the sacred architecture, converging on the tabernacle, when the vast platform with table installed in the middle of the nave in the 1970s was removed and the high altar rebuilt. After about 50 years of interruption, we have restored the Corpus Christi procession of Saint Mary to a nearby church. All Catholics in the city and elsewhere are invited. We bought a large adjacent building to make a small school and a large parish hall. About 40 people attend Holy Mass each weekday and 240 on Sundays. The priests absolve about 85 penitents a week and give plenty of time for spiritual direction. 
Twice he ordained our priests in our church. He was the first English bishop to ordain in the traditional form since 1970. Each year he confers the Sacrament of Confirmation. Without however sharing the point of view of our Fraternity on a certain number of pastoral and dogmatic questions, our Archbishop is happy to see a community of faithful growing in a serene way. While burying far more priests than he ordains, and closing churches instead of building them, the pastor of this archdiocese generously supports our little community because of the manifest fruits God is producing in it. Every year converts join the Church, young people marry and others embrace the consecrated life. The faithful often pray for vocations, either during votive Masses for Vocations, or according to the Prayer of the Confraternity of Saint Peter. Their clergy remind them that their prayers and their sacrifices are essential to obtain from God the priests of tomorrow, making it possible to offer other parishes the opportunity for a saving rebound like that of Saint Mary of Warrington. O God, give us many holy priests! 
