Since the SSPX Resistance started, when Bp. Williamson had been expelled from the Society in 2012, Sacraments were given on irregular schedule.
While there existed a host of independent chapels in need of Confirmations. this was not supplied on a regular basis.
From 2012 to now. many such chapels capitulated to the persuasion and pressure of the SSPX to yield their property titles and control to them.
In the latter years of BP. Williamson's life, after he had consecrated an American Bishop, we were hopeful of some regional visitations and regular Sacraments. This didn't happen.
Confirmations are pretty much by private arrangement and for those living in the Southeast it meant a 500+ mile drive.
One explanation given for this was the fear that the Fr. Joe Pfeiffer crowd would crash the event. In one case, Confirmations were given to Fr. Bitzer's faithful and the Pfeiffer propaganda was that the Resistance was aligned with Feeneyites.
As the independent chapels shrunk, capitulated or died on the vine. the only source for regular Sacraments such as Confirmations. was the SSPX. Their Sacraments were publicly announced a few times per year.
As for Holy Orders. well that was very private and it culminatied with the last years of +W's life as being clandestine events.
The last four Consecrations, including ArchBishop Vigano were secretly done.
One must ask, if you believe the Catholic Faith is yours and you are part of the Light of the Truth, why do you hide it?
If the SSPX was good to go to then why didnt you go there from the beginning?
Honestly people who still go there after 15 years of the resistance existing need their head checked. It's toxic and utterly stupid.
Just because things get hard, does that give you a reason to compromise ? Is that the way the martyrs thought?
boo hoo, you have to travel far for Mass! MEANWHILE... Catholic in Nigeria, to take one example, live in GENUINE fear of their LIVES. But you're crying about having to take a drive or plane to a Mass, in your own country! Truly a pathetic middle-class, western problem.
Please everyone readying this, who goes to the SSPX:.... STOP! Being Catholic REQUIRES us to be ready to die for our Faith. The SSPX completely undermines that. Going there makes you worldy, hyper-sensitive, precious, even if you still have a veneer of piety to those around you, it makes you weak and effeminate. You CANNOT survive there long term and be a good Catholic.
EVEN MORE so for those who have children, because the little ones pick up attitudes way more quickly than us adults.
So you're crying about Bishop Williamson doing some consecrations secretly. It was Covid! He genuinely thought there was a good reason for it. And as for the lack of willingless for confirmations in the US, that's a matter for that particular Bishop. Could he do better? Well that's up to him and his personal judgement at the end of his life.
We as lay people, must do the best with what we have. Observe shrewdly, plan for the long term spiritually. Make alliances, and stop treating our religion like a childhood teddy bear. It's suppose to help us grow up and be manly. Not effeminate, weak, autistic, selfish, like it seems to do for most trads.
Now ask me how I really feel. Lol.