explanation from the replies:
“The really short of it: In the 60s, the catholic church made some decisions to modernise a little (e.g. mass in local languages instead of Latin being a big one, another one being Nostra aetate, which rejects the Jewish deicide narrative - the idea, that Jewish people are responsible for Jesus' death, something that Christians have used and continue to use to justify antisemitism).
The SSPX rejects all these Vatican 2 results, which put them in direct defiance of the church after they consecrated their own bishop which since the middle ages can only happen with permission from the Pope. In 2009, Pope Benedict lifted their excommunication because the catholic church puts a lot stock in unity - they consider themselves the 1 church founded by Jesus and the Pope is the direct successor of Peter and only if you are a member of the roman Catholic church under the pope you are in communion.
So any schism means that people are deprived from access to the 1 true church and that's Bad. So since the SSPX technically sees themselves as catholics, not protestants, they wanted to get them back into the church and start a dialogue with them and that's what has been happening these for almost 2 decades. The problem the SSPX has been facing is that the bishops they consecrated in the 80s are getting pretty old - so a while ago, they announced their intention to consecrate new ones (you know. The same thing that got them excommunicated in the 80s).
The date was set for the first of July - and yesterday, they did consecrate new bishops and now they're all excommunicated again. Which means tradcaths EITHER have to abandon SSPX and join the Vatican II based rest of the church - or continue to follow SSPX, which would mean leaving what they consider the 1 true church and communion. In other words they would basically be Protestants.”
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