Once again you are false on your claims sbout the sspx..in time we will see.
I've been traditional my whole life (almost 5 decades) and spent plenty of time in the SSPX.
The Crisis in the Church, which started in earnest in 1969, I have
personally experienced almost since the beginning. The
few years I "missed" (was too young, didn't exist), I quickly made up for by reading: I have read many more books on the Crisis, biographies, and pre-Vatican II literature than you have. I know what I'm talking about. I spent 3 1/2 years at an SSPX seminary myself. I am well aware of how they fundamentally changed in the 2000's and especially starting in 2012.
And let's not forget CathInfo, which I have run since 2006. I've seen it all.
It is you who is delusional. The evidence -- reality -- is completely in my favor.
Where I've been blessed is that the SSPX wasn't the *only* thing I've known, as far as Tradition. I got my foundation in Tradition and the Traditional Movement by growing up at an independent chapel run by Thomas A. Nelson. The SSPX didn't have a chapel within 1 hour of my house, so they were a non-issue, though most of us were supportive of their position. There I learned the essence of the Traditional Movement, the variety of opinions, and what was important.
So I can be more objective about the SSPX. For me, the SSPX came, and the SSPX went. I didn't have to choose between the SSPX or "going back" to the Novus Ordo, since my family never attended it. My mom personally left the Novus Ordo, even before she had a replacement.
I don't owe some kind of emotional, eternal, blinding debt of gratitude to the SSPX for "saving me". My priest Fr. Frank Slupski helped save me (i.e., put me on the path of salvation), yes. He was there at some crucial crossroads in my life. But by the time I got involved with the SSPX, I was firmly "converted" as it were to being a serious Catholic. Meanwhile, most of my seminarian buddies traced their awakening back to some Ignatian Retreat (etc.) or an SSPX priest to convert them in the same way. I think a lot of men are blinded by this sense of gratitude, loyalty, etc. and can't see that "their old SSPX" has changed.
Even worse, a few seminarians I knew came from St. Mary's, KS and ended up joining the Seminary by going with the flow, almost on a sort of auto-pilot. They kind of drifted in, almost like it was normal or expected of them. Don't ask me if (now Bishop) Michael Goldade fits this description...
Speaking of which, the SSPX DID come and go after my independent chapel, which was founded in the early 1970's. How, you might ask? Well, the SSPX wasn't always as large as it is today. Read your history books; the SSPX got down to quite a "genetic bottleneck", during which there were only a handful of priests and very few Masses in the USA. That's why most seminarians in 2000 spoke of how their families "discovered Tradition" at some point in the late 80's or 1990s. Because around 1984, there was almost no SSPX in the USA. So few American SSPX families COULD physically pre-date that era. The SSPX was decimated, obliterated in 1983, and the Archbishop considered pulling out of the USA entirely. It was that bad. Moreover, even the crucial St. Mary's KS property was at risk -- certain families had to PHYSICALLY hold the buildings (military style) using baseball bats kept behind doors, etc. There were court cases in progress, and "Possession is 9/10th of the Law". The 80's were a very dark time for the SSPX. I learned all this from Fr. Wolfgang Goettler, who was there. He and few others alive today...
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