And yet the SSPX, whose bishops are orthodox and faithful, are “outside” the Church. The injustice to all Catholics boggles the mind and has broken many hearts.
Many actual Catholics are well aware of SSPX Bishop Williamson's shameful holocaust denial and other eccentricities. He has even been disciplined by SSPX for the embarrassment that he is.
De Mallerais has a mouth on him that would embarrass the late Lenny Bruce especially when discussing popes.
Gallerata or whatever his name is has the virtue of gewnerally keeping his mouth shut.
Fellay is the genial front man and image meister of the schismatic sect since LeFebvre went, excommunicated, to his eternal "reward."
In saner times, they would have been tied to the stake as living fuel as well.
I am a Catholic for more than sixty years since baptism in infancy. Don't let your heart be broken. They deserve far more punishment than can be dished out in this life. So did Bernardin, and so does Law, Mahoney, Fiorenza, Pilarczyk, Quinn, and many Jadot bishops dead or alive, etc., etc., ad infinitum, ad nauseam. Declaration by JP II of the obvious fact that SSPX is a schism is justice and not injustice. It was JPII and not dead excommunicated Marcel who had the keys of the kingdom and used them. No Catholic with a mind finds it boggled by the papal justice meted out by JP II to punish Marcel and his revolutionary and despicable fellow miscreants.
The evil of the Jadot bishops does not justify the largely equal and opposite evil of the SSPX which has gotten far more positive attention than they ever deserved. SSPX should be given a hard deadline to submit unconditionally to the Vatican. If, as one may expect, SSPX refuses to do so. abolish the Ecclesia Dei Commission, excommunicate the leaders again, make attendance at their masses or receipt of sacraments from any of them a latae sententiae excommunicating offense for priests as well as laity. If they know what is good for them, SSPX will submit to B-XVI who has bent over backwards for them to the detriment of his authority as perceived from the pews. His successor is not likely to play patty cake with Fellay and company as B-XVI has.
If you value "fairness," may the Vatican publicly excommunicate them all, left and right, ignore them, and concentrate on the faith itself and those Catholics who ARE faithful and orthodox.
Finally, lest anyone be tempted to imagine otherwise, I attend the Tridentine Mass at St. Mary's Oratory in Rockford, Illinois, which is run by Fr. Bovee of the Institute of Christ the King: all Tridentine and absolutely in communion with and obedience to the pope and our new diocesan ordinary Bishop Malloy.