… If you want to say that there's no doubt, take it up with him. …
The question is, not whether there is
no doubt whatsoever, but whether there is sufficient doubt to declare invalidity of the very forms of Novus Ordo ordination and consecration themselves. The fact that conditionality has ever been stressed in the SSPX, whether by ++Lefebvre or admittedly less so by some of his successors in the SSPX leadership, ought to suggest to those who are sufficiently attentive precisely where the problems, both actual and potential, lie and how they ought to be addressed.
Surely the changes to both rites were grave enough—especially in that they lessened one's ability to be confident, ipso facto, of their sacramental efficacy and validity irrespective of the mind-set of the ordaining or consecrating bishops—without insisting that they are even worse!