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Of course you are "wary" of SSPX. There has been this steady drip-drip-drip of negative propaganda for decades. Some anonymous person writes about sedevacantism and EWTN uses it as a pretext for still another put-down--and you use it as a pretext for another amusing dust-up while spreading the same old lies. Nevertheless I will surprise you by saying I sympathize with SSPV--because they are closer to the truth than the offensive Novus Ordo and therefore closer than modernist Rome itself. This is because Rome supports a Mass that is in flagrant violation of the Council of Trent and this has created an impossible situation where knowledgeable Catholics must choose between Rome and the faith itself. I hardly blame sedevacantists for over-reacting in such a situation.

Look at the dilemma: if Trent was mistaken--then it's all been a sham and we all might as well stay home on Sunday. Conscientious Catholics are presented with no choice but to accept Trent--or lose their faith altogether. After 2000 years the Church just can't say--oops, sorry, we got it all wrong, we're turning everything around and every anathema and dogmatic proclamation from the past is no longer operative. That's an impossible posture for an infallible Church--and Rome knows it--just as it has known for decades that the Novus Ordo is a huge mistake and violates Catholic Tradition and doctrine. Yet it will not be honest and resolve the dilemma in a straightforward way. It wants to lie its way out of its inconsistencies. So the persecutions continue.

where knowledgeable Catholics must choose between Rome and the faith itself.

"Knowledgeable" Catholics know that there can never be a choice between Rome and the Faith itself. "Tu es Petros..."

If I remember correctly, doesn't the SSPV have a problem with the 1962 version of Tridentine Mass? Or am I thinking of another group?