Leo’s Neutralization Strategy for Tradition

How Rome corrals the old Mass into reservations, flatters the SSPX with parchment, and uses a domesticated trad media class to keep everyone calm while Leo quietly finishes the revolution.
If you want to know how the post-conciliar Church really works, stop reading pious slogans and look at the map.
On one side you have the official conciliar Church: territorial dioceses, episcopal conferences, synods, dicasteries, the whole bureaucratic edifice humming along on synodality, religious liberty, ecumenism, and anthropocentric liturgy.
On the other, you have fenced-off enclaves where the pre-conciliar faith is allowed to survive as a kind of ethnic minority culture: a parish basement here, a rented gym there, a country chapel, an independent monastery, a scattering of SSPX priories. Old vestments, old devotions, young families, lots of lace and incense. Spiritually serious, politically harmless.
That is not an accident. It is policy.
And the two key instruments of that policy are, right now …