Look, if you choose to take that risk and partake in a loose association without the safe guards of the Church, then that's your choice. 

But you must admit it is a choice without precedent and it is a choice fraught with immediate danger and an unknown future

For all its failings, the SSPX provide traditional sacraments, Masses, sermons, schools, community life. 

With a hierarchy there is a means of redress and a means to choose a different Mass center. A loose association has no hierarchy and the pool is incredibly small and fragmented. People, including bishops, are doing what they feel like without accountability. The fake priest Moran is a classic example illustrating this grave danger. Here in Ireland, Bp. Ballini was the only resistance priest here for years. People had no choice but to attend his Masses if they supported the resistance. They felt trapped and controlled. If they dared query something they felt was wrong, they were dressed down like children and told they could leave - knowing they had nowhere to go. I for one do not like that kind of manipulation. I know that not every resistance priest acts like that but that was the reality in Ireland. So to to say that the resistance is the only place you can save your soul is absolute nonsense. The SSPX is by far superior to anything Bp. Ballini has promised and failed to deliver. Just before he parted ways with the SSPX, I asked Fr. Ballini if he was a sedevacantist. I stood there waiting in silence for a few seconds while he thought about what to say. Finally, after a lot of mental wrestling, he let out a slow, drawn out, very guarded, 'nooooo....' which gave every indication of mental reservation. I don't like that. I don't like pretense. I don't like not knowing what I am dealing with. At least the policy of the SSPX is open to all. And my children - now young adults - still all go to Mass and, DON"T view other Catholics - regardless of where they go - as lepers.

So I repeat - and this is addressed to those who dogmatically believe - like Mr. Gubbins - that you will lose your faith outside the resistance: do you have teenage children?

With a hierarchy there is a means of redress and a means to choose a different Mass center. A loose association has no hierarchy and the pool is incredibly small and fragmented. People, including bishops, are doing what they feel like without accountability. The fake priest Moran is a classic example illustrating this grave danger. Here in Ireland, Bp. Ballini was the only resistance priest here for years. People had no choice but to attend his Masses if they supported the resistance. They felt trapped and controlled. If they dared query something they felt was wrong, they were dressed down like children and told they could leave - knowing they had nowhere to go. I for one do not like that kind of manipulation. I know that not every resistance priest acts like that but that was the reality in Ireland. So to to say that the resistance is the only place you can save your soul is absolute nonsense. The SSPX is by far superior to anything Bp. Ballini has promised and failed to deliver. Just before he parted ways with the SSPX, I asked Fr. Ballini if he was a sedevacantist. I stood there waiting in silence for a few seconds while he thought about what to say. Finally, after a lot of mental wrestling, he let out a slow, drawn out, very guarded, 'nooooo....' which gave every indication of mental reservation. I don't like that. I don't like pretense. I don't like not knowing what I am dealing with. At least the policy of the SSPX is open to all. And my children - now young adults - still all go to Mass and, DON"T view other Catholics - regardless of where they go - as lepers.

So I repeat - and this is addressed to those who dogmatically believe - like Mr. Gubbins - that you will lose your faith outside the resistance: do you have teenage children?

 I wouldn't give too much time to Tom's "remnant" ramblings. If his "remnant" is anything like him, I'd be afraid you'd lose the faith inside of it. 

I think the diocesan traditional Latin Masses are generally welcoming as are the SSPX larger city based chapels though I can only speak for the UK and Ireland. I haven’t attended a trad Mass anywhere else.

The sspx does not have a hierarchy, except a legal one. 

So, the more I keep hearing about +Ballini, the more underwhelmed I am ... and this general attitude among Trad clergy is noxious, and it's what turns Trad enclaves into little cults ... so say nothing of the fact that it's a usurpation of authority that they do not have.

Trad clergy need to get this straight:  YOU HAVE NO AUTHORITY.  None, zilch, nada.  You CANNOT BIND CONSCIENCES.  Your only role is an emergency dispenser of Sacraments to the faithful who request it, as per Canon Law, which permits irregular clergy to provide the Sacraments to the faithful who have a right to receive them, and in fact mandates it.  When you get up there at the pulpit, you are merely OPINING, just as if any one of us would get up there, and your 6-year seminary "degree" does not make you an expert in anything, much less a theologian.  You have "authority" only to the extent that you speak the truth which the Church has already taught.  You have absolutely no right to use the Sacraments as weapons, withholding them if someone does not conform to your "position" (which position means absolutely nothing ... outside of those principles already taught by the Church).  Nor do your "arguments" where you claim your position is the only one consistent with Catholic teaching mean anything, since ... your arguments can be wrong, and the dogmatists on both sides are wrong, and their blunders are obvious.  Unfortunately, not a few young men enter the seminary because it makes them feel important, where they enjoy the laity bowing their heads in deference and call them Father, when a great percentage of them would struggle to make shift manager at McDonald's after having worked there for 10 years.