Except you ignore ALL the pope's ideas, opinions, wishes, laws, orders, etc. no matter what they are - and you said you wished the SSPX did the same. So you don't just ignore just the ones that you, in your private judgement(quite Protestant), judge to be heretical - but the whole lot. Ignoring the pope's jurisdiction and authority entirely.

Furthermore, the Catholic Encyclopedia defines schism as "the rupture of ecclesiastical union and unity". Seeing as the SSPX has irregular status and its priests do not have ministry within the Church, they are not in ecclesiastical union and unity. Their efforts to work with the diocesan authorities, attempts at rectifying that, were in fact condemned by yourself. You literally condemned them for attempting to mend their schism with the Church - all while you condemn others for being "schismatic".

The Pope question is neither here nor there unless you're a Bishop, cleric or have a special calling. For all of us laymen (which is the majority of CathInfo) we just have to keep the Faith and be Traditional Catholics, completely rejecting Vatican II and its de-facto new religion. Do this, and we have a chance of saving our souls. Do it not, and our souls have a 100X greater chance of losing the Faith and being lost.

The Pope question is a complete red herring for Traditional Catholics. We have much bigger fish to fry, as demonstrated and discussed in the "Catholics Living in the Modern World" thread about daughters being worldly and boy-crazy. SSPX and other Trad Catholics are losing their sons and daughters to the World and to satan -- but they don't care, as long as they think they have the Pope question figured out! Madness!

I've pointed out many times that Sedevacantism offers zero practical benefit over and above the immense benefits of the Traditional Movement itself. Now whether it causes any harm seems to be open for debate.

I personally go so far as to say that the exact nature of the Crisis in the Church is a bona fide supernatural mystery, one that literally can't be known, achieved or grasped by human reason alone, without the aid of Divine Revelation -- and God hasn't revealed it yet! That is to say, if all the best minds and theologians in Tradition got together for a 1-month conference, they wouldn't be able to figure out the Crisis in the Church, unless God joined their little conference.

This is my perspective, as one who has been in the actual Traditional movement for over 4 decades.

Unless men can figure out the mind and plans of God "by human reason alone", the Crisis in the Church is a nut that will never be cracked by human power.

I doubt +ABL wanted the whole body of Catholic laymen in 2019 to spend their days primarily arguing with each other until they are blue in the face about the exact status of the Pope and how God is going to fix the Crisis in the Church. There just isn't an argument or authority that can be wielded to conquer the others, resulting in a state where the "losing" side is reduced to 100% men of bad will.

The solution to the crisis is in plain sight.  If everyone stepped back for a moment and did a thought experiment, it might make more sense.  What if Our Lord performed another great miracle like the miracle of the sun at Fatima and everyone in the world saw Our Lady say that this Francis fellow is an imposter and not a true pope and that the only true Catholic clergy are those who were ordained in the traditional rite by bishops consecrated in the traditional rite.  Then it should be abundantly clear to every Catholic that the solution is for the existing Catholic clergy to elect a pope.  But instead as it is now everyone is wringing their hands and worrying about who wields legitimate authority in the Church.  The only mystery is why men continue to be so focused on a church (Conciliar) that is obviously not the Catholic Church.

What if Our Lord performed another great miracle like the miracle of the sun at Fatima and everyone in the world saw Our Lady say that this Francis fellow is an imposter and not a true pope and that the only true Catholic clergy are those who were ordained in the traditional rite by bishops consecrated in the traditional rite.  Then it should be abundantly clear to every Catholic that the solution is for the existing Catholic clergy to elect a pope.

If the hypothetical "fixing of the Crisis" ends up vindicating the Sedevacantists, then it proves my point in spades: after all, Sedes are what, less than 1% of conservative or even Traditional Catholics? There is NO WAY that a 99% majority of Traditional Catholics don't care, don't put God first, are of bad will, are stupid, etc.

It would be easier to believe that Hillary Clinton is actually a saint. We're talking, I'd to question every experience (interaction with reality) that I've had in my 4 decades of life.  Do you know how many thousands of Catholics I've spoken to or read their words, both IRL and online during that time?

The fact that (in your hypothetical) God had to come down and reveal what the truth was -- a truth that 99% of Trads were overlooking, mind you -- would prove my point in spades.

If the hypothetical "fixing of the Crisis" ends up vindicating the Sedevacantists, then it proves my point in spades: after all, Sedes are what, less than 1% of conservative or even Traditional Catholics? There is NO WAY that a 99% majority of Traditional Catholics don't care, don't put God first, are of bad will, are stupid, etc.

It would be easier to believe that Hillary Clinton is actually a saint. We're talking, I'd to question every experience (interaction with reality) that I've had in my 4 decades of life.  Do you know how many thousands of Catholics I've spoken to or read their words, both IRL and online during that time?

The fact that (in your hypothetical) God had to come down and reveal what the truth was -- a truth that 99% of Trads were overlooking, mind you -- would prove my point in spades.

  The only mystery is why men continue to be so focused on a church (Conciliar) that is obviously not the Catholic Church.