text: <<I always enjoy how the trads love to invoke the "remove yourself" sort of terminology>>
  True.  And yet most of the schisms, or schismatic-like movements, at least in the past three hundred years, have come from the right.  As the letter from the four cardinals first made its way into the news (not that the average Catholic in the pew knows or cares about it), I thought it unlikely that it would lead to a schism. I still think it unlikely: Burke can do the math and he knows that he's young enough to be an elector at the next conclave, and I doubt that he will do anything to complicate that.  Yet, it seems clear that his ego has engaged, and it's impossible to say for sure where that will lead.  I would not want to see this lead to a schism; but I'm not sure that it would be a terrible thing. Perhaps those who want a church whose marks are authoritarianism, rigidity, legalism and pharisaism ought to have it.