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I believe this is quite true for your average lay Traditional Catholic ... but not for a Salza and not for most priests.  I myself went through the same process in seminary that many priests and seminarians did.  You start off as a Traditional Catholic mostly by recognizing how contrary Conciliar Catholicism is to Tradition.  You tend not to go too deep into it.  Stubborn is still at this phase.  But then you start studying Traditional Catholic theology, in particular ecclesiology, and it hits you in the face how contrary to Tradition R&R really is.  Then you’re faced with a choice to resolve this somehow.  Those who did not experience such an intellectual process were, quite frankly, either somewhat dull-witted, or just didn’t care much about “theology”, writing it off as irrelevant compared to learning how to say Mass or give sermons or hear Confessions.  You’ll notice that sedevacantists tend to be the brightest seminarians and priests.

Although I agree with much of this and I also agree that most *scholarly* priests are *somewhat* resistant to this, remember that *NO ONE* is immune to this.

I believe this is quite true for your average lay Traditional Catholic ... but not for a Salza and not for most priests.  I myself went through the same process in seminary that many priests and seminarians did.  You start off as a Traditional Catholic mostly by recognizing how contrary Conciliar Catholicism is to Tradition.  You tend not to go too deep into it.  Stubborn is still at this phase.  But then you start studying Traditional Catholic theology, in particular ecclesiology, and it hits you in the face how contrary to Tradition R&R really is.  Then you’re faced with a choice to resolve this somehow.  Those who did not experience such an intellectual process were, quite frankly, either somewhat dull-witted, or just didn’t care much about “theology”, writing it off as irrelevant compared to learning how to say Mass or give sermons or hear Confessions.  You’ll notice that sedevacantists tend to be the brightest seminarians and priests.

See, this is something you, for whatever reason refuse to see. Who here does not know that it was the learned, the trained scholars, the trained and knowledgeable clergy, hierarchy and theologians who "experienced such an intellectual process" and are the ones consistently responsible for starting all errors and heresies throughout the history of the Church - reference V2 itself.

To you, all those who ignore the popes' heresies and errors, strive to simply keep and grow in the faith and are not deciding the status of popes, you dub them to be in "a position that simply cannot be recognized as Catholic". What you fail to recognize is that you, being one like those above who "experienced such an intellectual process"  only further the disedifying divisiveness among the faithful with your brand of intellectual process. To be blunt, somewhere along the line you learned error and are promoting that error as being Catholic.  

What I posted in my first post in this thread is real, it actually happened, it is not some speculation or theory - it happened, and among those who strive to remain faithful to the true Church and faith in this crisis, it will continue for as long as this crisis continues because simply, *that* is the Catholic thing to do.