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“Their value increases in their fidelity to the Church and to Benedict XVI and diminishes in their infidelity to the oaths they once swore many years ago.”

Are you talking about the Oath Against Modernism that Popes John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI all swore to? The SSPX priest have never defied their oaths, unlike the above.

"To confer the presbyteral or diaconal orders licitly, it is required that the candidate, having completed the period of probation according to the norm of law, is endowed in the judgment of his own bishop or of the competent major superior with the necessary qualities, is prevented by no irregularity and no impediment , and has fulfilled the prerequisites according to the norm of ⇒ cann. 1033-1039. Moreover, the documents mentioned in ⇒ can. 1050 are to be obtained and the investigation mentioned in ⇒ can. 1051 is to be completed. 6/ a person who has placed an act of orders reserved to those in the order of episcopate or presbyterate while either lacking that order or prohibited from its exercise by some declared or imposed canonical penalty. a person who has received orders illegitimately while prevented by an impediment from receiving them; Dispensation from all irregularities is reserved to the Apostolic See alone.

Lefebvre did not possess the canonical authority to ordain Fellay in the first place. Ergo, Fellay, (unlike one of his fellow bishops), must first obtain dispensation from the pope, (since he’s now engaged in schism), contrary to section 2 of the canon laws regarding ordination. An impediment which was not formerly present.

Again, it’s up to Fellay. He can choose to go on his own, but he won’t get to take SSPX with him, and he’s not going to get another opportunity like the one he has been provided by the Pope. End of the road. He either reconciles or leaves.