"Is the SSPX Right about Vatican II?" -- A dialogue between Aidan Nichols and a "confused Catholic"

"Rome and the SSPX: a very puzzling dialogue" -- When Moyra Doorly began to wonder if the SSPX is right about Vatican II she asked leading theologian Aidan Nichols to address her doubts. The initial exchange was published July 3, 2009, and continues in the pages of the Catholic Herald (UK):

• Did Vatican II usher in our secular age? Author Moyra Doorly and theologian Fr Aidan Nichols conclude their correspondence about the state of the Catholic Church today. (Catholic Herald October 27, 2010).
• Letter from a confused Catholic: Could the liturgical crisis stem from the Council itself?, by Moyra Doorly. July 3, 2009.
• Reply [to] a confused Catholic: The contrasts you draw are unnecessarily sharp, by Fr. Aidan Nichols. July 3, 2009.
• Is the SSPX right about the liturgy? October 30, 2009.
• We remain the Church of Tradition December 25, 2009.
• Vatican II: a triumph of naïve optimism? Author Moyra Doorly and theologian Aidan Nichols continue to discuss the merits of the Society of St Pius X's critique of the modern Church. January 29, 2010.

"Unless one supposes that all human powers are irremediably subverted by the Fall, that there has been a complete corruption of human nature, there will always be some instinct in that nature, however weak, which is oriented to reality and therefore oriented to these basic qualities of reality: truth, goodness, unity, and beauty. Also there is, of course, always the possibility that the grace of God is at work in uncovenanted ways in human hearts and situations, so that those instincts can be assisted by grace to respond to the divine presence in the Creation. This is what it ultimately comes down to."

Dialogue with a Dominican. An interview with Aidan Nichols, O.P.
Touchstone, Nov. 2000.