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I always find this funny coming from people who get their sacraments from priests at what are essentially illegal chapels not recognized by the local diocese. Somewhere along the line you judged for yourself that it was time not to obey the Big Cheese - the man in white - or his local Ordinary, or to attend their Novous Ordo mass and sacraments. Why not? Who gave you the personal authority to override the local bishop and His Holiness?

John Daly, in his highly recommended book, Michael Davies, An Evaluation, has great quotes from Orestes Brownson and Fr. Felix Sarda y Salvany (footnote 20), on driving away that bugbear of a false understanding of private judgment, and what erroneous private judgment truly is.

See the attachments. The second attachment completes the footnote quote from the previous page.

I think Daly's book is available in pdf on the Novus Ordo Watch website. That was how I got it.

I think the heart of the matter may lie with the distinction between official Church acts and what we are allowed to do for our individual salvation. Where do we draw the line between obeying what we must, and not obeying what we shouldn't? Because once we start judging for ourselves when not to obey, there's the risk of placing all power of authority on the individual (what the Sedes seem to do), but of course never having the option to lawfully disobey runs the risk of falling into some sort of serious evil if the authority figure abuses their authority (what happened to the Novus Ordites).