[Mark in the Old South]

Re: "Like any schism, there are many who chose the SSPX not to find God, but to spite their superiors in the Episcopacy and Rome."

No doubt there are some but you would not like me to do the same. Would you like it if I applied to you what motivates a few in the Novus Ordo, say a Cardinal Mahoney or Bernardin, how about a Greenley? I promise not to do it to you if you don't do it to me. Agreed?

[Dominick]

I think playing the numbers game, and assuming absolutes in the motivation for joining a schismatic body is not benefecial for either side. I think I was trying to say when the vast majority of the people who now affilate with the SSPX return to Rome, so to speak, there will be die hards trying to continue on with the "cause".

Clearly, when the Latin Mass is an option universally, or as a personal prefecture, it would be very attractive to me.