I understand that; I'm just saying that this guest said that his friend had it directly from the horse's mouth, so to speak.
I am not attacking him for his position; just reporting what I heard.
Frankly, I think that SSPX is less schismatic than many who are supposedly within the formal Church (see: National anti-Catholic Reporter).
I know you are not attacking him. I know that SSPX is not formally sedevacantist but they are close when they say they can pick and choose when they obey. The cafeteria has tables to the right as well as tables to the left. One distinction is that JP II has declared SSPX schismatic and excommunicated its bishops. The National antiCatholic Reporter presumably is beneath the notice of the Vatican or its proprietors might have been burned at the stake by now. NaCR seems permanently sedevacantist (at least operationally) unless (quite unlikely) and until a fully heretical pope supporting abortion and homosexuality might be chosen.
See NaCR return to "Catholicism" when: We announce to you a great joy: The conclave has elected the former superior general of the Benedictine Order and Archbishop Emeritus of Milwaukee as Pope Rembert I.... and then, "We, Rembert, in the first hour of our papacy, hereby name Frances Kissling to be the new head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Albany Bishop Howard Hubbard to be the head of a new Congregation on Social Life, Roger Cardinal Mahoney to be the head of the new Congregation on Church Architecture....."