[dsc]

"I would say, empirically, that the SSPX is not formally schismatic but that there is an element in the SSPX which favors schism and an element which does not."

What will happen vis a vis SSPX if the Mahoney crowd succeeds in electing a "progressive?"

A "progressive" would certainly come down hard on them, but will increasing numbers of people flee to the SSPX?

[wideawake]

Hard to say.

I don't think the "progressives" would come down hard, but simply ignore them and hope for them to go away. All talks of reconciliation would be at an end, but only a segment of the SSPX really cared about them in the first place.

It depends on what the "progressive" did or said. I think any "progressive" will ignore matters of faith or personal morals and simply issue clouds of statements and initiatives on "social justice" etc.

[te lucis]

What will happen vis a vis SSPX if the Mahoney crowd succeeds in electing a "progressive?"

Nothing, thanks to the wisdom and fidelity of Abp. Lefebvre & the bishops he conserated. Why would having a (more) progressive Pope in the Chair change what the SSPX is doing?

A "progressive" would certainly come down hard on them,

You mean like with an excommunication?

but will increasing numbers of people flee to the SSPX?

...yuo mean "continue to flee to the SSPX."