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I see a 20 page thread on Sedevacantism coming.
So to those of you tempted -- don't even think about it!
You can start however many threads in the Crisis subforum you want.

Then why did you bump the thread? disclaimer: I didn’t downvote your post.

But then again, I would expect a book that thoroughly trashes Sedevacantism to make a sedevacantist mad.

Well, that's overstating it a bit.  Father Chazal admits that Bergoglio is in fact a pertinacious manifest heretic.  Once that has been conceded, then one is entitled to hold the opinion of Bellarmine that Bergoglio is no longer pope.  He does make a valid point that the sedevacantists ignore the contrary opinions regarding what happens to a heretical pope, but at the end of the day it becomes one opinion vs. another ... and Bellarmine's position does seem to be the one that has won out (Siscoe & Salza's distortion thereof notwithstanding) ... and seems the most probable.

What Father Chazal is REALLY arguing against isn't sedevacantism per se, but DOGMATIC sedevacantism.  In that case, I agree with you that it tends towards home-aloneism.  There's one branch of dogmatic sedevacantism in particular that denounces as heretics anyone who remains "in communion" with heretics.  So heresy then spreads like a veritable contagion ... to the point that the home-aloneists consider themselves one of about 15-20 actual Catholics left in the world.

Please(!!!) correct me if I am wrong, but didn't Bishop Williamson state that as time goes on, there is less and less of a chance that the NO sacraments are confected, due to the fact that there is less and less of a possibility of a valid Episcopacy and valid ordinations due to the dying off of traditionally consecrated Bishops and priests. ( as well as lack of proper intention due to poor priestly formation).
Not trying to put words in the good Bishop's mouth but I thought that's what he said.

No, I don’t think he said this.