Sister Lucy Truth (SLT) has responded to my recent article debunking its “Priest Who Knew Too Much” video about Fr. Alonso. The founder of SLT, Dr. Peter Chojnowski, posted on his RadTrad Thomist blog about the matter[1] along with a 10-page PDF entitled “SYMONDS EDIT 4” (via a Google Drive link).[2] SLT’s response invites me to answer why Alonso put the disputed texts in brackets.[3] Regretfully, it appears the organization has dug in its heels on this point about who authored the brackets. It is necessary for me to be crystal clear in response to its invitation:

Sister Lucy Truth, the brackets were the work of a later editor.

They were not the work of Fr. Alonso.

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