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Yes, but the question is, who is in schism: the Mahoneys of the Church, or those who hold to tradition as it was before the Modernists gained so much power?

I'll try to make this easy for you dsc; the group that is holding to the 19+ centuries of tradition and are perplexed at what happened to the Church in the last forty years are the ones in schism*. The ones who have NOT done anything that the Pope would excommunicate them for, right up to spending diocesan donations on a homosexual lover are the ones in union with the Church. I mean come on, this isn't rocket science. As you can see by many posters on this forum, it's so simple to see the right and wrong. You must be willingly deciding to remain ignorant.

*The ordination of the four bishops was a schismatic act for which the church blessedly used her rightful authority. The traditions of the church are not the reasons why they are excommunicated.

"The traditions of the church are not the reasons why they are excommunicated."

Actually, it's my understanding that they are.

The reasoning goes like this, I think:

(1) Modernists in the Church trying to destroy it.
(2) Nobody holding out except SSPX.
(3) Can't do that without priests. Can't ordain priests without bishops.
(4) Modernists insist they will pick bishops, which means death of SSPX.
(5) To keep Tradition from being swept away and suppressed forever, it was necessary for SSPX to ordain bishops.