[gbcdoj]

The Society ordained their own bishops. Any Modernist bishop in the Church who did the same thing would get the same treatment from the Vatican.

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.

[B Knotts]

I wasn't talking about Lefebvre himself, who clearly invoked a latae sententiae excommunication by his actions.

I'm talking about the run-of-the-mill SSPX types.

It just seems like traditionalist dissenters are promptly and harshly dealt with, while modernist abuses are winked at, at least to some degree.

[rogator]

"The Society ordained their own bishops. Any Modernist bishop in the Church who did the same thing would get the same treatment from the Vatican."

The Chinese Patriotic Association doesn't get the same treatment.