God takes obedience seriously. We have had to suffer both of these rebellious sorry excuses for prelates because Eve just couldn't shut out the serpent's arguments and could not lay off the fruit of that tree and Adam had to go along and get along with Eve.
Your screenname is new (6/8/04). What names have you used here previously or simultaneously? Ninenot and I have been beating up on AmChurch generally and Weakland, in particular, here.
Just in case you are actually innocent of adherence to SSPX and its ecclesiastical crimes, the argument tends to be between those actual Catholics who are in communion with the Holy See, revile AmChurch pseudo-Catholicism, would like the malefactor perverted pedophile clerics burned at the stake en masse, and are angry as warranted with depredations by pervert pseudoCatholic clerics and antiCatholic groupies like SSPX wherever they may be found and, on the other hand, a tiny less than a few who defend those AmChurchian types and their counterparts in various world locales and the equally repulsive pseudo-"traditionalists" of the SSPX schism and its excommunicated leaders, dead or alive, who are self-appointed and self-annointed judges of the pope instead of submitting to him in obedience.
Is the pope Catholic?
Do you accept his authority and submit to him in obedience as Vicar of Christ on Earth.
If the answer to either of those questions is no, why are we talking? In that case, you would have nothing to say that is worth hearing by actual Catholics in communion with the Holy See. You are entering very old arguments here as is your right. No one has the obligation to shield you from the Truth, however.
If you are dissatisfied with Catholicism and the institutional Church, there are thousands of other Christian denominations where you may go and other places as well. In which case, buh-bye!
"Perhaps the punishment of Weakland..."
That was part of the irony - Weakland was not punished! JPII REFUSED his resignation at first, and then he was ALLOWED to retire. If you can find a declaration of schism or excommunication of Weakland I would like to see it. His payoff of his lover as we know was the tip of the iceburg, yet as far as I know he never received ANY canonical punishment.
"Your screenname is new (6/8/04). What names have you used here previously or simultaneously?"
I have never posted before June, nor do I have any other screennames.
"Is the pope Catholic? Do you accept his authority and submit to him in obedience as Vicar of Christ on Earth?"
I believe the pope is Catholic and I submit to him as I am obligated to do, just as I do my bishop. I will defend the pope when he is unjustly accused., just like I would defend those who attack Pius XII as "Hitler's pope". But I will not blindly obey my bishop who prays with Protestants on St. Patrick's day and protects homo/pedophile priests, one of whom was at my local parish.
Again, Paul VI and JPII that I quoted regarding apostasy would not qualify if they were speaking of SSPX. Apostasy is a falling away from the faith, to no longer believe in what it teaches. Now Paul VI said it had infiltrated the Church to a large extent, even unto the highest levels - this could not be the SSPX in the 70's or today as you well know. And if JPII did declare the SSPX were schismatic, they could not be part of the "silent apostasy" in the Church he described. So the revolution that is apostasizing that the popes described must be the NO clergy. And you are going to follow these clergy, right or wrong? According to your own qualifications, I must conclude you will be schismatic if you don't obey your clergy right or wrong. This will make you part and parcel of the revolution. Am I wrong?