[Canticle_of_Deborah]

You’ve walked into a den of Modernists my dear.

Nothing you can say will change the minds of the neo Catholic FR Living Magisterium. Not the fact that Rome has declared repeatedly the SSPX is not in schism. No, they are More Authoritative than the Pope.

Truly.

[StAthanasiustheGreat]

I think you are slighlty mistaken. In no way am I condoning Bishop Garcia’s actions if true, nor am I saying that the Society is in Schism (though perhaps Bishop Williamson personally is). What I am saying is that the contention that only “Novus Ordo Catholics” are misguided but perhaps well-intentioned is not true. There are those on both sides of the issue. That is the issue I was taking with xangel.

[BlackElk]

Which POPE declared SSPX not schismatic? In which papal document? Do you claim that a cardinal/bureaucrat's authority exceeds that of the pope himself so long as the cardinal/bureaucrat serves the interests of the schism?

The CATHOLIC claim is that the rulings of Pope John Paul II and the fact that Pope Benedict XVI has not seen fit to change the status quo established in JP II's Ecclesia Dei trump the speculations of any mere ecclesiastical inferiors. No more than the likes of Walter Cardinal Kasper or Roger Cardinal Mahoney does Dario Cardinal Castrillon de Hoyos have the authority to trump papal rulings whether the impudent schismatics of SSPX like to think so or pretend to think so or not.

It is the schism that thinks itself exempt from papal authority and seethes in raging hatred of John Paul the Great for calling the SSPX to account, declaring the SSPX to be a schism and expelling the ringleaders from the Church.