[Romulus]

Then consider the subject matter: one wishes to celebrate a particular version of the valid Roman Rite, without proper permission. The other apparently wishes to downplay a central teaching of the Church. Which is worse?

The latter of course -- until the former group moved to consecrate its own bishops. It's that act of overt schism that placed the SSPX on a level every bit as bad as the worst of the AmChurch trimmers. This is not to impugn their love and reverence for the Trad rite, which it's well know I prefer myself. Their undoing as I hope you'll agree is in refusing to accept the humiliation and suffering that sometimes accompany obedience. To reject this mystery of suffering seems spiritually defective.

[B Knotts]

Don't get me wrong, I'm not an SSPX adherent; far from it. My total exposure to the Traditional Latin Mass is two indult Masses in the past year. I find that I do prefer it, but I belong to a parish that is more or less in my community, such as it is, and we have a very good priest who is cleaning things up, so I attend the Missa Normativa. Still, I pray for a universal indult, regardless of what the naysayers say.

I just can't help noting that there is schism "within" the Church which is at least as bad, in most aspects, as that which has been formally recognized.

That said, there are some possible, if unlikely, reasons why bishops may have voted for this language, even if they did not actually agree with it.