And this "Traditional Pope" also approved and promulgated the 1955 Holy Week Rites that you claim are tainted with Modernism. Pius XII, while a legitimate Pope, was no St. Pius X and not staunchly anti-Modernist either. He actually set into motion all the factors that would eventually bring us Vatican II. Nevertheless, that is also irrelevant. According to you, both Pius XII and Wojtyla had the authority to excommunicate. Had Wojtyla excommunicated Hans Kung for heresy, you'd hold it as valid, despite the fact that Wojtyla was a Modernist. Question was whether the excommunication ITSELF was just or unjust ... in both cases. There's no difference. I hold that Father Feeney's excommunication was unjust, the same way that I would hold the Wojtylan excommunication of +Lefebvre et al. to have been unjust even if I believed that Wojtyla had been the Pope.
You can't escape the trap:
If you want to promote Feeney, you have to attack a true pope (which, per your own sede position, is verboten).
R&R has the good sense to recognize their authority, but reject their harmful decisions.
Sounds to me like you're implicitly conceding the R&R position in your defense of Feeney (or you couldn't dismiss the excommunication).
