While this is true to an extant, its not a "different religion" like the prots, schismatics, Jєωs, or pagans. The only reason non-traditionalists are non-traditionalists is because they have been led astray. If this were 1955 and Pius XII were still alive, this would not be the case.
I disagree. It really is a different religion. If someone is offended at the thought of her loved one not going straight to heaven, at prayers offered to relieve suffering in purgatory, then that person doesn't believe what Catholics believe.
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If the local Novus Ordinarian priest, clad in white vestments, with white draped over the coffin, proclaims "Now our friend is in a better place, in heaven," I don't think the average layman in the pew can be held accountable for believing the same thing. Now, if a traditionalist, someone who was a novus ordinarian and became a traditional Catholic, were to say this, willfully, not due to human respect etc., it would be probably heresy. A confessor, not me, should decide.
I believe that those architects of the Novus Ordo, its Missae, spirit, letter, all of it, are truly responsible. Some laymen are too, God knows, not I. But many cardinals, bishops, clerics, and laity or not culpable. If the man I profess is the Supreme Pontiff gives me an order in regards to Faith and morals, in 1964-1970, I'm following it. In the early days of the Revolution, very few embraced an SSPX or sede position. Fr. Gommar de Pauw, Francis Schuckhardt, P. Joaquín Arriaga y Saenz, who knows who else.
The reason the journey to Tradition has been difficult for some, myself included, is because what purports to be the hierarchy is giving orders, yet there is resistance, and later disobedience against said orders to what we know is right. Thats why almost everyone I know, family and friends, are not traditionalists like you or me. They may have disliked Vatican II, but went along with it. When all the priests, religious, bishops, and Pope are promoting these changes, one went with it. The sisters and priests who taught orthodox teaching just 5-10 years ago were promoting the V2 Revolution. Thats why my great-grandparents, one an orphan raised in a covent in the Philippines, another a Cristero in México, did not really resist V2. I think and would hope they missed the true Mass deeply, but it was only as "a preference," etc.