Nobody says the SSPX is the Church. But it certainly is a part of the Church. And by the same token, it is a mistake to confuse the papacy with the entire Church. A pope is its steward only, not its creator; it is his job to protect what has been handed-down to him and to transmit this, not to invent novelties nor to change what he should be guarding against change. If he does not do this, others must do so by default--in this case, traditional Catholics who care about such matters. The arrogance, therefore, is with those who would dare to impose a new religion on the faithful, not with those who merely defend the faith from destruction.
On the contrary. Unfortunately, that's how we tell where the Church is. And my walking out the door would not even be noticeable, in fact plays into 'their' hands.
You'll notice no effort was made to stop the en'masse exodus of the faithful after VII - people who just walked out and never came back. Just like them, I don't think the Church cares if you ever come back either. I do.
I don't particularly pray for protestants to come back, but I do pray for seperated Catholics. Don't die outside the Church - just maybe you are mistaken where the Church is. Maybe I am also, it's not so easy these days.
The thing is, don't allow your zeal of activism to cloud your good judgement. Just maybe you don't have the complete answer. Correct theology is only part of the puzzle, and unless we know the mind of God, may be only a small part. Were the martyrs in the catacombs, who weren't privy to our theology any less Catholic? Are they in the new Limbo waiting for the second coming? I don't think so.
I'm not saying to join the Novus Ordo, just.......