"anti-modernists are not schismatic"
You certainly make sense sometimes.
You certainly make sense sometimes
baby steps, baby steps.
Archbishop Lefebvre was declared automatically "excommunicated" and schismatic by a modernist Pope. The good Archbishop's crime? Fearing his imminent death, he consecrated bishops to continue the formation and ordination of anti-modernist priests.
Rome had previously agreed, but then delayed, repeatedly, the promised consecration.
It was all planned: wait the good Archbishop out until he died, or declare him "excommunicated" if he performed the consecrations, even if it was from his death-bed. It was a win-win situation for modernist "Rome" and a lose-lose situation for traditional Catholics.