Precisely, Leonn, this is exactly what is happening.
This is the predicament in which we now find ourselves.
As Bishop Williamson keeps saying, "The Shepherd is struck and the sheep are scattered".
Unity and authority in the Church come down from the Pope, and when he goes astray, all chaos breaks loose, as we can see.
It is worth reading the last two Eleison Comments about this which are posted on this site
It seems only a miracle will restore the Church now, and the message of Fatima gives us that hope.
Division, however, is the history of the Church. Look at the tens of thousands of sects that have split off all down through the ages, even in better times when authority was faithful. Likewise, it is the history of the SSPX. I think many people don't realise just how many divisions there have been, scarcely a year going by without some group leaving to the left or the right. So too now with the Resistance. Alas, when human beings are involved, it is impossible for it to be otherwise. Our consolation is that, even though the truth be overshadowed, God will never abandon any soul of good will that earnestly seeks Him. Let us take heed lest we fall, and be full of charity for our neighbor and our erring brethren in these confused times.

Thank you St. Peter.

If the 1983 code and the 1917 code refer to the same canons, then they would be speaking about a situation where clerics are part of a particular church or personal prelature, and a diocese.

From what I understand, SSPX describes its places of prayer and worship as chapels and not as churches. It is not clear if the places of worship among other traditional groups (Independent, Sedevacantist, etc) are also called chapels or churches.  Do you know if SSPX chapels fall under a diocese? Will the canon laws (Can. 265, 283 #1) apply to chapels?

I grow weary of assumptions on this forum and will not entertain them.

If you want to know what the canons say and refer to, read them.

The SSPX was legitimately established as a missionary order.  They sometimes forget that, and call their chapels "parishes".  And, yes, canon law applies to them.

Fr. Pfeiffer, his group, Fr. Hewko, Fr. Raphael, etc, are "transient clerics" as they have no bishop and are not part of a properly established order, diocese, etc.  

The chaos and especially, the divisions extending all the way through down to the Resistance, Sedevacantists, and even "independent" priests have left me without Mass, Sacraments, and anyone with whom to pray.  I'm a sheep wandering alone in the wilderness and barren lands.  Those representing themselves as shepherds have proven to be wolves.  

We obviously need to respect our priests, and they do have a certain amount of authority that comes merely from their exalted state due to their Ordination and operating in persona Christi.  But they do not have any canonical or doctrinal authority.  So, for instance, if a priest preaches something from the pulpit I don't agree with, I might talk to him about it, but I will not go around the parish rabble-rousing against the priest.  So, for instance, if a Priest is R&R, while I am sedevacantist, I'm not going to go around his chapel promoting sedevacantism, or leave pro-sedevacantist pamphlets all over the church, etc.  If someone asks me my opinion, I would give it honestly, but I would not cause issues at the chapel.  But I do not feel any obligation to become R&R myself, since he doesn't have any authority to impose his opinion on consciences.  That's where his authority ends, IMO.

Are you saying that Traditional chapels aren't part of the Catholic Church, outside of which one can't be saved?

In other threads you were asking people where the One True visible Church (with the Four Marks) is to be found.

As the moderator of this forum, I demand an answer: Where do you go to Mass?

Several CI members have a problem with poche (and he drives them nuts), because he attends the Novus Ordo. But that doesn't bother me nearly as much as those who SEE the Crisis in the Church -- they believe in the Crisis -- yet they reject the whole Traditional Movement on principle, and attend the Novus Ordo (or stay home alone, not attending Mass anywhere). Such people vocally criticize the Trad movement as being illegitimate, and not an option for Catholics.

Those who merely attend the Novus Ordo out of ignorance and/or stupidity can't drive me nuts, or I'd be nuts! After all, there are close to a billion "Catholics" most of which attend the post-Vatican II protestantized Mass. If I let them get to me, I'd be insane already.

What bothers me is those who claim to see the Crisis, and by all calculations SHOULD BE a Traditional Catholic, attending Mass at SOME Traditional Catholic chapel somewhere -- pick a group. But yet they don't. They reject the legitimacy of the Traditional Movement, talking about jurisdiction, the visibility of the Church, etc.

There is no "group" I believe in more strongly than the Traditional Movement, which started immediately after Vatican II. That is the group I identify with, and will defend to my dying breath. That is why I supported the SSPX for a long time, and why I support the Resistance today. They were/are merely faithful branches, sane and prudent implementations, of that movement.