Thank you, Ladislaus for telling the real truth about Thuc. CMRI has been a real blessing for many who are wounded from the Vatican II sect.
I do not agree with the CMRI about a number of theological issues, but the truth is the truth ... and I have no hesitation assisting at CMRI Masses. In addition to these smears against Archbishop Thuc, there's the other ludicrous/absurd claim being made by the SSPV (and their ilk) that the CMRI are schismatic or Old Catholic. It's one thing to disagree with a group, and another to make up lies and engage in smear campaigns. I could go RIGHT NOW to an Orthodox Bishop and seek ordination/consecration and, guess what, that does NOT make me an Orthodox schismatic. By Canon Law, I'd be suspended from the exercise of my Orders, and not considered to have forfeited my membership in the Church or to have become a heretic/schismatic, just suspended, but given the Crisis in the Church, I don't even believe God would enforce that (since, as we know, Canon Law in general, in provisions that are not merely a reflection of Divine Law, is meant to keep order in the Church in NORMAL TIMES, but there can be scenarios where the salvation of souls trumps the positive law). Even then, Daniel Brown made an abjuration before ordaining/consecrating Shuckhardt. Regardless, heresy/schism are not contagious. And Brown had been doing the same thing, seeking consecration due to the crisis, and the group he sought Orders from was the Old Roman Catholics not the Old Catholics (there are some significant differences, since the Old Roman Catholics reject the Old Catholic heresies ... look up the difference).
At one point, a priest who had been affiliated with Bishop Kelly, the primary author of these smear campaigns, reported that Bishop Kelly said of the +Thuc line bishops that "We can't say they're valid, or else people might go there."
Overall, it's quite shameful.