A valid point, and one that has often crossed my mind.
I do not adhere to SSPX, and disagree with their strategies, but it seems to me that the dissenters within the formal Church are at least as disobedient as most of the so-called "schimatics" in SSPX.
Yet, the SSPXers are treated as pariahs, while the liberals are handled with kid gloves.
The fact that Lefebvre and his Society didn't get excommunicated for this:
We refuse, on the other hand, and have always refused to follow the Rome of neo-Modernist and neo-Protestant tendencies which were clearly evident in the Second Vatican Council and, after the Council, in all the reforms which issued from it.
really says it all concerning the laxity with which the Roman Pontiffs treated the SSPX.
I do not adhere to SSPX, and disagree with their strategies, but it seems to me that the dissenters within the formal Church are at least as disobedient as most of the so-called "schimatics" in SSPX.Yet, the SSPXers are treated as pariahs, while the liberals are handled with kid gloves.
Look, as far as the SSPX is concerned, they are a part of a much larger Catholic Church. They know it is the Church Christ founded that carries His guarantee, not any particular order within the Church. They know, they are not the issue, God's Will is. (They often don't ACT like they know they are not the issue, but they do know that.) Is it conceivable that God's Will include child molesting priests being aided, recruited, enabled and protected by the Weakland's of THIS world? The reality is that the leadership of the RCC in America is demonstrably FAR more swift to punish in every way possible ORTHODOXY in defense of Tradition than they are HETERODOXY in defiance of the same.
Can anyone explain that in a way that makes sense?