[GCC Catholic]

Does not the Catholic Church consider the SPXX to be in apostasy? Given time I'm sure I could come up with more. There are good Protestant groups and there are bad, just the same as in the Catholic Church.

The bishops of SSPX were excommunicated for over twenty years for the schismatic act of being illicitly consecrated bishops, and even now are still considered suspended a divinis (not a good thing). There is a process ongoing to regularize them back into the Church - which would then put them on the same footing as the other orders on the list earlier in the thread.

But if the OPC looks at PCUSA the same way that the Catholic Church looks at apostate "Catholic" groups (such as the American Catholic Church or the Polish National Catholic Church which are regarded as non-Catholic regardless of what they consider themselves to be) then that's quite different from how the Catholic Church regards religious orders within itself.

[HarleyD]

Protestants do NOT look at apostacy the same way as the Catholic Church looks at excommunication. Whereas the Catholic Church looks at excommunication as the cutting of of grace and has degrees of severity until people fall in line; Protestants just look at apostacy as picking up our marbles and going to another sandbox letting God sort it all out.