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I believe this is wrong. You don't need legal loopholes to prove that the recent decree from Rome is invalid and unjust. ergo - no excommunication took place. Despite the SSPX trying to place themselves into the false conciliar church, they are not officially "in" ...

No .

Here's my response to the other individual who made a simliar statement.  And you actually raise the problem yourself, where they are not "in", and yet they are / are "trying to place themselves into the false Conciliar Church", where they refuse to publich +Lefebvre's stattement from 1988, etc.

THAT makes all the difference in the world, and this is where the formal / material distinction applies, where two othings can be materially the same, but formally difference, and it's actually the FORM that determines the essence of something.

There's nothing remotely similar about these two incidents.  Father Girouard hits the nail on the head, and actually echoes what I've been saying all along, namely, that the reliance upon legal loopoholes and technicalities vs. the attitude of Archbishop Lefebvre, SSPX have still not figured it out.

1988:  "Excommunicated from what?  Excommunicated by whom?"

2026:  "Not REALLY excommunicated from [the Catholic Church]."

If you can't figure this out, you're hopeless.

As Bishop Williamson always taught ... IDEAS MATTER.  Materially, the end result is the same, SSPX disobeyed / defied Conciliar Rome, but, formally, the attitude and the reasoning are completely different.

This addresses the nonsense from that other thread about ... Are the SSPX truly Resistance now?  Clearly, based on Father Pagliarani's letter, not even close.

But the hope is that, as time goes on, and they stop desperately TRYING to appease the Conciliars with the hope of being welcomed by the Modernist heretics with open arms ... perhaps their minds will clear, well, those minds that aren't actually deliberate controlled opposition.