If the properties were in the name of the SSPX, The Nine would not have gotten any of them.

So....because the SSPX have themselves taken over properties, this means that it's fine that the Nine did the same thing. Just one example of strange Sede logic,

Unfortunately, with all due respect to +Lefebvre, I don't think this is true at all.  When he made his case, his ostensible reason was to have some order and uniformity in the Society.  I don't think he believed it to be a scandal or danger to question NO annulments or Holy Orders (he said it would be preferable if Stark would have consented to being conditionally ordained), nor did he think anything wrong about the pre-1955 Missal.  But the unavoidable bottom line is that he was in fact cozying up to Rome at the time, making overtures to Wojtyla to allow the SSPX to make the "experiment of Tradition" in the Conciliar pantheon.  He was extremely tolerant of sedevacantism in the 1970s, and then from about 1985 until his death.  In the mid- to late- 1980s he believed that all NO Sacraments were doubtful (Sean Johnson cited him along those lines), and the SSPX themselves set up various tribunals to investigate various NO annulments.

I think we are just going to keep going back and forth.  This all happened 40 years ago.  What I want to know is how now can the 5 that are left make reparations?  The SSPX has changed again, so most of the people here wouldn't expect them to make apologies to +Felay?  Would a public apology suffice? Should they say if they went back they would do it differently, like taking the higher ground and starting over (as Ladislaus mentioned).  Then we just enter in to another issue.  Since some of the 9 have been made Bishops outside of +ABL then does +Zendejas or +Williamson need to conditionally consecrate them? Since we have no official authority per se, is it even possible that these bishops and priests start taking the higher ground to undo all the knots that have been created since Vatican II?

I don't know.  Just throwing thoughts out there.

See QV, I look at it from another point of view.

 If they would never have split, (I am very biased for +Sanborn here),  I believe +Sanborn would have been SG, maybe still the SG today. As such, there would be no neo SSPX, no Resistance, probably no FSSP, presumably none of the various splinter and various sede groups that were born from SSPX priests.

 The SSPX would be what, two or three times the size it is now, maybe 10 or 50 times the size it is now, who is to say what blessings that would have wrought - had there been no split. I know that in those days, that was the plan, i.e. to keep ordaining priests. Too bad that division slammed the door on it.

That's the Providence that was hoped for. The Nine drove a wedge into it.

The issues were concerning things that their conscience would’t allow them to compromise on. With all due respect to the Archbishop, he forced their hand.

He received the 1962 missal and Novus Ordo sacraments as much as he received Vatican II. It's the same authority behind it.

What ridiculous framing. Everyone knows sedevacantists are the ones passing on everything just as it was handed down before V2, Lefebvrites are the ones dropping things along the way.