[Slugworth]

The SSPX is split in itself between sedevacanists and non-sedevacanists, and the best sources on that would be found on the actual SSPX site, and it's supporters sites.

Are you sure? I couldn't find any evidence of a "split" here,

here,

here,

here, or

here. Perhaps you could post a link that shows that the SSPX is sedevacantist, whether as a whole or in part. I'd be very interested in reading any such source.

Thanks in advance.

[Theoden]

I am at work right now and don't have the saved articles available to me, or the time to post them. I will post them when I have time after I get home later today.

You seem to be very much a supporter of the SSPX. Are you a member yourself? I know that they were excommunicated by Pope John Paul II a few years back. I would love to have the good ones come back, but not the insatiable hardliners.

Give a mouse a cookie, and they will want a glass of milk. Not with the SSPX, offer them a cookie, and they will reject the offer and demand the whole jar of cookies with the glass of milk. Their demands are unreasonable. At first I liked them and their ideas, but I no longer do. I hope for reconciliation, but I don't think it's going to happen.

[Theoden]

I spent my lunch hour doing some more research on the SSPX, and you are right, they are non-sedevacantists. I misinterpreted some of the articles written by the dissidents.

They recognize that the Throne of St. Peter is still filled by a Pope, and that he does maintain authority (for the most part). So what? They are still in schism, and are still under the excommunicated status. I don't like the manner and tone of their disagreements, and I still dislike the group as a whole, though not on an individual basis.

On what authority can a small group of bishops break from the Body of Christ, and still claim legitimacy? There are many who have broke away in schism, and they have either been excommunicated, or been on the receiving end of a crusade or inquisition at some time. People can rationalize anything, and can quote/interpret Scripture into any point of view. That does not legitimize anything, and IMO is an act of extreme arrogance. Oh well.