Absolutely it would be wrong.

I think you'll find that even those who have gone to receive orders from the Old Catholics have later publicly regretted it.  

What makes you assume that they would accept you with loans and debt?  Even if they would, it sounds suspiciously like running to the cloth to avoid the responsibilities of these debts.  Not good.

If you did, you would then find yourself a priest who had no idea how to be a priest.  Not to mention the danger to your faith.  Better to go to a Novus Ordo seminary, since then at least the garbage they teach you will end in dubious orders, and you won't be in a position where you will be scamming faithful Catholics and being lousy priest for them.

Absolutely it would be wrong.

I think you'll find that even those who have gone to receive orders from the Old Catholics have later publicly regretted it.  

What makes you assume that they would accept you with loans and debt?  Even if they would, it sounds suspiciously like running to the cloth to avoid the responsibilities of these debts.  Not good.

If you did, you would then find yourself a priest who had no idea how to be a priest.  Not to mention the danger to your faith.  Better to go to a Novus Ordo seminary, since then at least the garbage they teach you will end in dubious orders, and you won't be in a position where you will be scamming faithful Catholics and being lousy priest for them.

I'm not personally considering it. It's just a hypothetical question, and I wondered how other trads viewed it. Those are very good points you made, along with the other person's comment about associating with people who pridefully reject the Immaculate Conception, and who are basically protestants.

Francis Schuckardt, formerly the leader of the CMRI received orders from the Old Catholics, so it has been thought of and done before. I don't think it is as common now though as traditional Catholics can go to one of the many Thuc-line Bishops for orders.

Francis Schuckardt, formerly the leader of the CMRI received orders from the Old Catholics, so it has been thought of and done before. I don't think it is as common now though as traditional Catholics can go to one of the many Thuc-line Bishops for orders.

He did.  Look how that worked out.  

You should be careful about them. They have "ordination" of women as priests and bishops. This places the validity of their sacraments in doubt.

That is a case study in how you can go from right-wing extremist (excuse the modern loaded buzz-word) to left-wing extremist.

The Old Catholics presume to reject Vatican I and the Catholic Church that followed this Ecuмenical Council. So they are more traditional than Traditional Catholics, right? Extremely right-wing or conservative. No one is more trad than them!

But they ordain women? Guess what -- The average Novus Ordo layman/priest/bishop is against that. So your behavior is roughly in line with the extreme liberal elements in the Novus Ordo.

That's how the devil gets ya.

Likewise, I know a Traditional priest ordained before VII that got himself consecrated, and proceeded to ordain one man a permanent deacon. Permanent deacon? Is that traditional? Of course it isn't. It's a Novus Ordo novelty. But this priest, extremely conservative, flipped over into this error.

The big danger that faces SSPX / Bp. Williamson now is that because there is division, each needs to differentiate from the other in order to show justification for the respective position held. The task for laity will be no less difficult in working out which, if any, remain true to the faith. Only time can tell.

Those are good examples of how extremes really aren't necessarily opposite, Matthew.  In the political realm, I'm always amazed at how the nαzιs are considered "far-right" while the communists are "far-left".  But when you examine the actual ideology, it's impossible to tell the difference.  It's like a circle and the far-right and far-left simply meet.

The same applies in the religious realm.  What's more, most heresies begin as an over-reaction to a previous heresy.  Thus, through the centuries, heretics seem to shift from one extreme to the other.  This is why the Church has always told us to follow tradition.