Centroamerica, are (were) you not a Sedevacantist?
I was born into SSPX circles. Attended Mass regularly at the seminary in Winona when the resistance had it’s hot summer and Fr. Pfeifer showed up.
In Latin America I got very close to the resistance, Bishop Williamson and his bishops.
In 2017 I moved back to the States with my wife and started attending at a CMRI church. At the same time as that was happening, Fr. Rodrigo has a providential meeting with Bishop Daniel Dolan. I visited SGG, met Fr. Cekada and Bishop Dolan. Attended two episcopal consecrations at St. Gertrude the Great.
Fr. Hesse and the priests at St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary had a huge impression on my formation. As I grew up in SSPX circles, I always made it a point to understand the arguments and the crisis. The SSPX and groups in line with them held a belief regarding formal/material heresy. Fr. Hesse articulated this the best and promised he would become a sedevacantist if the pope ever canonized Martin Luther.
After Bergoglio, that position was quietly discarded. Then, suddenly, books began being written in multiple languages arguing in favor of the possibility of a heretic pope. Catholic Canon Law of 1917 canon 188 cites explicitly cuм Ex Apostolatus, but Latin Rite Catholics use deception to promote their clique.
I kept analyzing positions and seeing what group kept everything authentic.
When I discovered the protections built into the Byzantine Church, I realized its power over the crisis.
I looked into its theology and pysche.
Then I noticed something I had questioned and needed to find the answer.
Why does every Divine Liturgy “missal” have a page taped over the Nicene Creed?
Then, I realized, everything Traditionalists Latin Catholics tell us about the East is wrong.