The problem of the faithful is the incessant cacophony of confusing and contradictory decretals, condemnations, withholdings of Sacraments, threats, ostracizations, positions, deceits, lies, misleadings, etc, at the hands of the warring, territorial, divisive, self-serving trad clergy.
They prey on us like carrion birds!!!
Indeed, and I've come to tune out all this noise. Among the Trad clergy, there are perhaps one or two dogmatic issues that might warrant some kind of principled division, and even those are very much mitigated by the confusion of these days ... but the other conclusions are always several logical steps removed from Catholic doctrine, and yet they assume that because one of their operating premises is
de fide their conclusion is also, since their logic is undoubtedly impeccable. That's simply not true. During this day and age, if a priest PROFESSES the Catholic faith and does not adhere to some OBVIOUS manifest heresy that all agree is heresy ... I hold that it's licit for the faithful to assist at their Masses and receive the Sacraments. So, for instance, if there were some priest out there calling himself Traditional Catholic, but had decided that Our Lady is God or said that the Pope is just like any other bishop, etc. ... yeah, that's obvious heresy. But to put various disputed questions, like whether Bergoglio is pope, into that same category? If those priests are in error, it's between them and God. NEVER has the Church required the faithful to be theologians in order to evaluate the validity of their theological arguments and their various positions.
I said principled divisions, because I can see some things requiring a practical division, e.g. if one group admits NO priests who are not conditionally consecrated or who they consider to otherwise have doubtful Orders, or where one group offers pre-1955 Holy Week, the other post- ... where just practically it can't work. But they cross the line when they impose these opinions or positions on the faithful by threat of withholding Sacraments. If, for instance, I felt that +Thuc line Holy Orders were doubtful, I might opine along those lines and perhaps warn the faithful about it ... but if they disagree you withhold the Sacraments from them? Seriously? On whose authority are you attempting to bind consciences under pain of effective excommunication (refusal of Sacraments, which is basically an excommunication).