The SSPX (without a flamewar)

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Yes, there is a problem, because the Pope (3 of them now) have said there is a problem.
 
No no no please dont.

civil Discourse is the only path to union
 
No. That is simply incorrect. They must have permission from the VALID superior. The SSPX leaders were excommunicated in 1988. Benedict XVI lifted the excommunications of 4 Bishops that were invalidly consecrated in in 1988 when he was Pope in 2009 (was highly controversial at the time), but their status vis-a-vis the Church is not normal/regular.
 
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Summorum Pontificorum says that any priest anywhere who knows how to, can celebrate the Tridentine Mass, regardless of the thoughts of their bishop
 
Are you saying that John Paul II, Benedict and Francis were all wrong?
 
I don’t want to start a angry argument.
All I will say is…look at what they have said.
 
Well, now you’re getting into either sedevacantism, which is a position the sspx does not hold, or the authoritative nature of the See of Peter
 
Yes.

JP2 allowed it with the permission of the local ordinary
B16 allowed every priest everywhere
 
Max,
This is not exactly true the way you wrote it.

SP allows a priest to “privately” say the EF at any time. A Bishop’s permission may be needed to celebrate it publically. It depends on the Bishop.
 
Listen, the See of Peter has authority over the Church.
Popes can be wrong if they are not speaking with infallibility.
 
From Wikipedia:

Consecration of bishops without papal approval had been condemned by Pope Pius XII in his encyclical Ad Apostolorum principis, which described the sacramental activity of bishops who had been consecrated without such approval as “gravely illicit, that is, criminal and sacrilegious”.[25] The Roman authorities were unhappy with Lefebvre’s plan, but they began discussions with him and the SSPX which led to the signing on 5 May 1988, of a skeleton agreement between Lefebvre and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the future Pope Benedict XVI.

On Pope John Paul II’s instructions, Cardinal Ratzinger replied to Lefebvre on 30 May, insisting on observance of the agreement of 5 May and adding that, if Lefebvre carried out unauthorized consecrations on 30 June, the promised authorization for the ordination to the episcopacy would not be granted.

On 3 June, Lefebvre wrote from Écône, stating that he intended to proceed. On 9 June, the Pope replied with a personal letter, appealing to him not to proceed with a design that “would be seen as nothing other than a schismatic act, the theological and canonical consequences of which are known to you”. Lefebvre did not reply and the letter was made public on 16 June. For the first time the Holy See stated publicly that Lefebvre was in danger of being excommunicated.

On 30 June 1988, Archbishop Lefebvre proceeded to ordain to the episcopate four priests of the SSPX. Monsignor Antônio de Castro Mayer, the retired Bishop of Campos dos Goytacazes, Brazil, assisted in the ceremony. Those consecrated as Bishops were: Bernard Fellay, Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, Alfonso de Galarreta, and Richard Williamson.
 
Yes, but the concepts of canonical jurisdiction predate v2, meaning the sspx should respect them
 
Yes, but what if the pope is teaching error. What would you conclude by that?
 
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