[ultima ratio]

I never said TRADS were the only ones who feel disenfranchised. You are jumping the gun. Nor do I buy the idea that anybody who attends an SSPX Mass is schismatic. Some just are sick and tired of empty, desacralized liturgies and worry about their kids growing up Catholic.

[Polycarp]

Nor do I buy the idea that anybody who attends an SSPX Mass is schismatic. Some just are sick and tired of empty, desacralized liturgies and worry about their kids growing up Catholic.

With this I agree completely.

But this is a far cry from

The Novus Ordo is not Catholic

Unlike others here, I truly believe one could attend the SSPX mass in times of necessity without personally being schismatic as a layperson. If an SSPX mass were available to me...I'm not sure what I would do. More than likely, if things progressed in my town to where I could not in good conscience attend an (illicit!) NO mass (not an unlikely situation in certain places) I would attend the local (licit!) Byzantine Catholic liturgies. If no licit NO mass were available and no Byzantine mass were available, I would in good conscience attend the (illicit!) SSPX mass.

But once a layperson states The Novus Ordo is not Catholic they have openly declared themselves to be in schism. That is a far cry from simply attending the illicit SSPX chapel in times of necessity.