Maybe your conscience pricks you, Pax Vobis, for being out of communion with the Catholic Church, and for acting as if there is no way you can commit the sin of schism today, that you react so maliciously. If you want to be out of communion with the Pope and the Bishops, I weep for your soul. I know before God I'm a Traditional Catholic, and I have no need to prove anything to you. I want to avoid heresy, schism, vice, sin, become a saint, serve the Church, and save my soul. That's it.
Not long ago, this forum said: "A forum for SSPX and other Traditional Catholics to discuss matters pertaining to the Catholic Faith". That was when I first signed up.
SVism and R&R being the only two traditional possibilities is your false dichotomy, not mine. I don't have to answer that, and I've already explained before that there is a third alternative RPWR: Recognize, Pray, Work and Restore. It's neither sede-ism nor R&R, but +ABL said this, "We wish to remain attached to Rome and to the Successor of Peter, while refusing his Liberalism through fidelity to his predecessors. We are not afraid to speak to him, respectfully but firmly, as did St. Paul with St. Peter. And so, far from refusing to pray for the Pope, we redouble our prayers and supplications that the Holy Ghost will grant him light and strength in his affirmations and defense of the Faith. Thus, I have never refused to go to Rome at his request or that of his representatives. The Truth must be affirmed at Rome above all other places. It is of God, and He will assure its ultimate triumph." Recognize, Pray, Work, Restore, they all appear, and those are the 4 pillars of Authentic Traditional Restoration.
https://www.sspxasia.com/Docuмents/Archbishop-Lefebvre/Apologia/Vol_two/Chapter_40.htm It's because you don't do this that you opposed Bp. Fellay. Whereas everyone who thinks like a Catholic sees that Bp. Fellay is perfectly just in obtaining Ordinary Jurisdiction for the Three Society Bishops.
unlike the SSPX who remain irregular
This is your unproved opinion, Ladislaus; the Pope has called them Catholics, and that alone is sufficient to refute your opinion. But further, as Bp. Fellay has explained, and I've proven to you before, the Pope has granted them ordinary jurisdiction, extending their faculties beyond the Year of Mercy. Now, it is impossible to have ordinary jurisdiction, and be irregular. I don't have to go into your other non-sequiturs in your post, because you neither understand what schism is (hint, belonging to an objectively Catholic society isn't it), nor, plainly, have you experienced for a long time, the blessing of what it is and what it means, to enjoy the benefits of Catholic Communion with the Universal Church: "We are very grateful to our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI for issuing, last July, the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificuм which called us to come into undisputed and peaceful Communion with him.
Now we have that undisputed communion! It is a pearl of great price; a treasure hidden in the field; a sweetness that cannot be imagined by those who have not tasted it or who have not known it, now for many years. Its value cannot be fully expressed in earthly language and therefore we hope that all traditional priests who have not yet done so, will answer Pope Benedict's call to enjoy the grace of peaceful and undisputed communion with him. Believe us, the price to pay is nothing; even all the angry voices that have shouted against us and calumniated us are as nothing when weighed in the scales against undisputed communion with the Vicar of Christ; others have died for it; what are raucous voices?"
https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2008/07/transalpine-redemptorists-regularized.htmlIf I thought the SSPX was non-Catholic, I would NEVER join them. Some of you are so partisan that you cannot see that the Fraternity of St. Peter has done so much good for the Church that anyone who truly loves the Church will appreciate. And the SSPX has also done even more good that very many "on the other side" also appreciate:
All I can tell some of you is that, at least Summorum Pontificuм, views like yours are increasingly rare. One of the moderators at OnePeterFive, who is an FSSP Parishioner, is very pro-SSPX. And very many Traditional Catholics are like that, whether you know it or not, whether you believe it or not. And they are right, and Bishop Fellay who said, "I rejoice whenever a Traditional Mass is celebrated" is exactly right in that Catholic mindset, that has only the good of the Church at heart.
I reject the absurd idea that the SSPX is not Catholic, or that belonging to a Catholic society is schismatic, or any other such "sede-doubtist" subjective nonsense. I believe Bishop Fellay is a perfect Traditional Catholic. So why precisely should I refuse communion with him or refuse to belong to the Fraternity he belongs to?
I also reject the general attitude that to belong to the SSPX I must hate the FSSP, or vice versa. If I chose the FSSP, I'm not obliged to hate or refuse communion with the SSPX, since both Fraternities are Catholic. That in fact is a schismatic attitude; schism is a sin against Catholic Charity. You can commit schism in two ways, per St. Thomas. Refusing subjection to the Vicar of Christ. Which some of you do, instead of at least taking the safer position of not refusing subjection by being in communion. Or, by refusing communion with the members of the Church subject to the Pope, which some of you also do. Tread carefully. No one can cause you to be in schism, just like any other sin, if you don't want to. No one can also cause you not to be in schism if you want to remain there. It's a free will choice.