"Can. 1325 Ignorance which is crass or supine or affected can never be taken into account when applying the provisions of cann. 1323 and 1324. Likewise, drunkenness or other mental disturbances cannot be taken into account if these have been deliberately sought so as to commit the offence or to excuse it; nor can passion which has been deliberately stimulated or nourished."
No such canon could have applied. Is there no nonsense you will not dredge up to support a papal injustice? It is ridiculous to think the Archbishop believed there was a state of emergency because of ignorance, crass or otherwise. On the contrary, the evidence was everywhere. Even Paul VI admitted the Church was in a process of auto-demolition. Mass attendance had collapsed everywhere after the institution of the Novus Ordo. Major dogmas were being ignored and rejected by masses of Catholics. The folly of Assisi I had just occurred. Missions were collapsing. The ancient Mass was almost entirely eliminated and corruption was spreading everywhere. And all this was occuring within the span of a few years since the close of the Council. The crass ignorance was not on the Archbishop's part, believe me--it was on the part of those in full denial of the facts.
There was, objectively, no state of necessity. Even granting the premise that there was a necessity for the SSPX to have a bishop, this had been granted and Msgr. Lefebvre himself stated that he was "assured" he would have received this bishop:
That is why we are asking for several bishops chosen from within Catholic Tradition, and for a majority of the members on the projected Roman Commission for Tradition, in order to protect ourselves against all compromise.Given the refusal to consider our requests, and it being evident that the purpose of this reconciliation is not at all the same in the eyes of the Holy See as it is in our eyes, we believe it preferable to wait for times more propitious for the return of Rome to Tradition. That is why we shall give ourselves the means to carry on the work which Providence has entrusted to us, being assured by His Eminence Cardinal Ratzinger's letter of May 30th that the episcopal consecration is not contrary to the will of the Holy See, since it was granted for August 15th.