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There is a diocesan approved convent of cloistered sisters nearby, who invite laity to attend some Masses at their chapel. They post dress codes for those who attend, even those laity who have no connection to that Order. Likewise, the SSPX religious order can post dress codes for laity, all of whom are technically visitors. This is the rule for shrines, too, who invite visitors, with the presumption those people already have a regular faith community, with their own pastor, somewhere else.
Theoretically, the SSPX chapel can claim it is not schismatic, since it has no REGULAR congregation of its own, just people from the area who happen to visit, but that those laity are still under the jurisdiction of their own pastor and bishop. The reality is that the laity in our local chapel apparently do not really belong to any parish, and apparently are not involved in what should be their own diocese. Their defacto parish is the chapel, and the priest there, unlike the priest at my nearby convent or shrine, is not under the bishop. He is not really under any bishop ordinary at all.
In effect, a governing structure set up for religious orders is the SOLE makeshift parish and diocese for laity, an inadequate arrangement in Rome’s view.
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