text: The problem for would-be schismatics is that they need a lot of followers or they look pretty silly. Cardinal Burke may be a hot topic of conversation on this board, but your average Catholic in the pew has never heard of the guy. And even if they had, he'd need a sexier cause than this to get them fired up.
  
  Marcel Lefebvre won followers because a lot of people still felt strongly about the Latin Mass. But you're not going to find too many people jazzed enough about their divorced neighbor getting to receive Communion that they'd be willing to throw in with a renegade cardinal.
  
  Let's face it. Shifts in pastoral practice are not the stuff schisms are made of.