I don’t doubt they said it, but it is inconceivable that after condemning the consecration of +Faure for having proceeded without papal approval, they themselves would do so.
I could, however, imagine them pretending to consecrate without explicit approval (with a wink from Rome), to pretend to have escaped Roman subservience, but rest assured, whomever is consecrated will have at least tacit permission from Rome.
I’m not commenting on if they will or won’t, or who’s right or who’s wrong. Above my paygrade frankly.
but I can see an internally consistent logic under which modern sspx could condemn williamsons consecrations and yet eventually do their own
it seems like sspx current logic, for better or worse, is that the Holy Father (and they accept Francis as such) should be obeyed UNLESS obedience is impossible or sinful
so the idea is we can’t celebrate the NO because that’s sinful, we can’t celebrate the Indult because that’s sinful (because the precondition for doing so is accepting the NO as licit which it’s not) and we can’t leave our faithful without sacraments or priests because that’s wrong. The sspx probably (for better or for worse) thinks that the new rite ordinations are valid, but you still wanna have priests that don’t believe/teach V2 errors and so on
It’s a trickier case to make that you “have to” consecrate bishops when you still have four of them. It’s a trickier case to make that this is an act that is absolutely necessary to save souls. Sspx could think this is wrong, but could still think consecrations would be justified if the alternative was leaving the faithful without any bishops at all
this seems to me internally consistent, even if it may be wrong or naive or whatever. When Benedict (again, if you wanna say it was deceptive, fine) seemed willing to meet sspx in the middle, giving wider permission for Latin masses, lifting the excommunications, etc, the sspx was willing to try to work with him. When Francis gave faculties for confessions, the sspx may have felt like they could be regularized without having to concede anything (I kinda understand the logic also, IF Francis is a consistent liberal, he might be just as willing to allow Sspx as to allow leftist priests to operate. I think increasingly NOW we are seeing he is not consistently liberal/lax, by virtue of his investigation of Strickland and whatnot). If I recall, David pagliariani took a harder line against Rome post traditiones custodes. Maybe not as hard as you’d like, but harder
now to be clear I’m not really trying to argue sspx is right and resistance is wrong. I’m just arguing that it seems like a divergence of two different principles. Sspx reaistance (by analogy) says “the father is abusive so we don’t have to do anything he says” while Sspx says “father is really bad and negligent so sometimes we have to fend for ourselves.” I actually think the former more quickly:/likely leads to SV as at least a theoretical possibility but I feel like I’m getting too close to taking sides (which I kinda didn’t want to) if I push this too far