To Excommunicate the Whole Church

The theologian Francisco Suarez is often quoted (for example, here) as saying that a Pope would fall into schism if he were to change all the liturgical rites that have been upheld by apostolic tradition, or if he were to excommunicate the whole Church.  Paul VI changed all the liturgical rites of the Church -- or at least purported to: a favorite tactic of the conciliar hierarchy seems to be to impose its will, and bully the faithful into compliance, by using measures that look like laws but really aren't.  The current Pontiff, who himself has said that he is not afraid of schisms, and who is currently employing the favored conciliar hierarchy tactic against traditionalists, with his "responsa," appears to be trying to excommunicate the whole Church.  

But, you will say, the traditionalists are just a tiny, albeit vocal, minority in the Church.  Well, no: that is only the present generation.  Our unity is with all generations of Catholics.  The Mass as celebrated in traditional parishes and chapels (and basements and motel rooms and Mass rocks and parking lots) is the one that all these prior generations of Latin Rite Catholics would know and recognize as the Mass; what has been going on in most mainstream parishes for the last half-century, they would not recognize as the Mass.  Only the generations that have lived during the last half-century -- the blink of an eye in the life of the Church -- would accept it as the Mass.  It is they, then, that are the tiny minority in the Church.  

That means the attempt to disown traditionalists and quash the traditional Mass and Sacraments is not an attempt to cut off a small cadre of intractables, or suppress a fad, but a repudiation of the perennial worship of the Church and almost the entire communion of saints.  How is this war on tradition and its adherents not effectively an attempt to excommunicate the entire Church?  How is it not objectively a schism?  How can we not tremble at the spectacle of an eighty-five-year-old successor of Peter with health problems pretty evidently and objectively working for the other side?  When and how is this all going to end?

The only thing we can say for certain is that the affair will not end in victory for the enemies of the Church.