Traddy Catholics on the ropes?

[Rev. Rye]

New religions start all the time. Fifteen or so years ago the Catholic Diocese of Atlanta had one of their lawyers send a vague letter to a traditional Catholic group in the area over the latters' use of the word "Catholic". The letter did not even rise to the level of being a legal DOA; I have always wondered if the lawyer in question was not disbarred.

The United States is the best place on the Planet to start a new religion; all it takes is a web address and a PayPal account!

Yes, but how many catch on? There's already multiple sedevacantist groups in America alone, and, as far as I can tell, the most popular one worldwide has a couple thousands. For a splinter group to make any real headway, there'd have to be some sort of unity in who the new antipope is going to be so it doesn't ends in a divide and conquer situation. And, hell, even in places where one group holds a monopoly, like the Society of St. Pius X in France, there's only about 1100 members. Admittedly, this only counts the priests, seminarians, and others that I think counts monks, nuns, and lay brothers and sisters, but, in France, they have 200 buildings, as opposed to 45,000 from the mainstream church in the entire nation.