All this talk about SSPXers either joining Rome or else declaring themselves sedevacantes, brings to mind an obvious question
Another obvious question this brings to mind is what will happen to the SSPXers who don't join Conciliar Rome or become sedevacantes? They, after all, are the true SSPXers, carrying on the work of Archbishop Lefebvre.
Group 1: Conciliar Compromisers - will probably merge with other Ecclesia Dei groups, get increasingly watered down and become "Latin liturgy for conservative Novus Ordoites".
Group 2: Sedevacantists - although loud and vocal, they have the seeds of their own destruction within them: arguments, splits, a "drying up" of the spiritual life.
Group 3: True SSPXers - will be attacked by both sides
using the same arguments. Bishop Fellay talks very like a sedevacantist now, just drawing the opposite conclusions.
But, we have Archbishop Lefebvre on our side and, I hope and pray, the Three Bishops. And as Bishop Williamson has said, Liberalism and Sedevacantism are two sides of the same coin. So if any SSPXers are wavering, here is a useful article:
http://www.sspx.ca/Communicantes/Dec2004/Is_That_Chair_Vacant.htmOr even simpler than reading the article, Our Lord's words about the Consecration of Russia: "He (the Pope) will do it, but it will be late." I very much doubt He is referring to a sedevacantist "pope" with nine followers. In fact, one of them did try it, at Assisi, I think, a few years ago, and nothing happened. And people still supported him after that. Odd!