"Even if Catholics faithful to tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the True Church of Jesus Christ."
And regarding this notion that the Church can be reduced to a small flock, no one disputes this. But this same flock will retain all the essential characteristics of the true Church of Jesus Christ, something which all the traditionalist Bishops, Priests and laymen combined simply do not yet possess.
I disagree with Caminus. The essentials DO remain.
Allow me to show why, by using an unlikely but realistic hypothetical scenario.
Let's say a handful is 10 people, and these 10 with the true Faith are the only ones left existing on earth. One is a bishop and one is a priest and these two clergymen live in Algeria. All other Catholics live in different countries, but not in Europe. That entails there is a vacant Roman See. Consider that Italy partly fell into the Mediterranean after some natural disaster, but the province of Rome still exists, and nobody lives there.
Right there, THIS would be the Church with ALL the essential characteristics of the true Church of Jesus Christ. Believe it or not, the Church in this scenario has the capability of having a pope. This is how...
The Roman province is "the See of Peter". That is doctrinal. If the bishop and priest in Algeria move to Rome to take up permanent residence, and the priest recognizes that bishop to be "the bishop of Rome", and the bishop accepts to be bishop of Rome, he would automatically become pope by that election by "acclamation", and would then have full and universal jurisdiction over all the remaining 8 Catholics in the other parts of the world.
This hypothetical scenario is true and in accord with Church teaching. Knowing this, it makes it all the more easy for anyone to shed the false SSPX fears about how one must go with the numbers, and the buildings, and the money - at the expense of truth & consistency. It allows all to more easily reject the false principle that -
'if something presents a "difficulty" or a "trial" it therefore cannot be true'. All the more easier to unbiasedly and conscientiously consider and accept what those Catholics have to say who have the truly consistent position - rejecting the false popes of Vatican II in order to protect the dogmas of the "Infallibility of the Church" and the "Holiness of the Church".