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Category Archives: SSPX
How to view the SSPX.
This is interesting from Catholic Family News as a development of the SSPX’s great “proof of concept” project, the building and consecration of their beautiful, huge new church in Kansas, The Immaculata. “While regrettably the Church and the SSPX are … Read More
New, grand SSPX church, Bishops, and Proof of Concept
At Crisis there is a piece by Eric Sammons entitled “Our Incurious Bishops“. The idea is this. The SSPX just consecrated a huge and beautiful church in Kansas. It was packed with precisely the sort of people bishops might like … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, SSPX, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Proof of Concept, SSPX
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3 May – Consecration of the new SSPX church – VIDEO – LIVE
The consecration of Immaculata Church in St. Mary’s Kansas. This is a “workshop” in CATHOLIC theology and spirituality. NB the purifications and exorcisms before moving to the consecrations. Booklet HERE Writing on the floor!
If a NUKE can be gentle, this is it. VIDEO: A Bishop addresses the present crisis. ¡Hagan lío!
This is amazing. Watch every minute. It is part ONE. No other explanation? No. Just WATCH it.
Meanwhile, in Kansas
This is from 1 March but I just found it today. The SSPX is building an amazing church in Kansas. The altar was installed.
D. Albany: Large old church for sale – $100,000
It isn’t that unusual these days to see that churches are for sale, some of them splendid, all of them once beloved, paid for with the pennies and tears of generations that entrusted their mites to the diocese. It’s sad. … Read More
ASK FATHER: What is the status of SSPX weddings when the local bishop denies permission, delegation?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I am from a town where the SSPX has recently established a vibrant chapel and has been extremely generous in providing Traditional Latin Mass and other Sacraments in the traditional rite. The local diocesan parish has … Read More
ASK FATHER: Is it a sin to contribute for a side altar at an SSPX chapel?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Is making a sponsorship to an SSPX church a sin, if one doesn’t support being in Schism. I have a deep love for Our Lady of Guadalupe for example and would like to support the side … Read More
SSPX. As I was saying….
I read something familiar at LifeSite in a piece about Bp. Athanasius Schneider’s remarks about the SSPX. I have often explained in these electronic pages that… There is no question that the Mass celebrated is in a Catholic Rite. The … Read More
ASK FATHER: Should I go to an SSPX chapel for the sake of my family or stick with a parish where things aren’t as good?
Say someone is convinced that the Vetus Ordo is a better channel for living our Catholic identity in this vale of tears. While not doubting that the Novus Ordo is a valid rite and not wholly ineffective, just not as … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, SSPX
Tagged SSPX, Traditionis custodes
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Powerful people think that they can suppress the Traditional Latin Mass. They will not succeed. This is one reason why. VIDEO
There are powerful people in the Church who think that they can suppress the Traditional Latin Mass. They will not succeed. This is one reason why. The video is a couple years old, but … that doesn’t make any difference. … Read More
ASK FATHER: Can a person commit a schismatic act and not be in “full” schism? “Schroedinger’s Excommunication.”
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Thank you for all of your wonderful, and sometimes saddening articles. They are truly a joy and blessing to read. They have helped me to educated myself in my faith better as well. I was wondering, … Read More
ASK FATHER: Can I get a dispensation from my Sunday Mass obligation from an SSPX priest?
From a reader…. QUAERITUR: I generally fulfill my Sunday obligation by assisting at a Mass said at a nearby SSPX chapel. We have an opportunity to attend a family reunion in a few months. Given how far away we live … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Canon Law, SSPX
Tagged dispensation, SSPX, Sunday obligation
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16 Comments
ASK FATHER: If Francis isn’t the real Pope, then do the priests of the SSPX still lack faculties to absolve sins?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: If the SSPX, until 2015, lacked faculties for confession, then, in the event that Benedict is still the pope and not Francis, does that mean the SSPX actually still lack faculties and sins are not being … Read More
VIDEO: Amazing church construction. It is not obligatory to build ugly churches.
I have always admired those in the Church who can think big, create projects, and bring them to completion. Hence, I found this project fascinating. I’ve been following the videos. The SSPX is building a huge church in Kansas dedicated … Read More
ASK FATHER: Not AGAIN! “Does attending an SSPX Mass fulfill one’s Sunday obligation?”
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Does attending an SSPX Mass fulfill one’s Sunday obligation? I’m asking because I ran across the linked article below written by John Salza in November of this year arguing that attending an SSPX Mass does NOT … Read More
Posted in Canon Law, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, SSPX
Tagged can. 1248, SSPX, Sunday Mass Obligation
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7 Comments
A new way to look at the “status” of the SSPX. Wherein Fr. Hunwicke bowls a wicked googly.
With great respect to Fr. John Hunwicke, I reproduce here, entirely, his recent comments about the ecclesial “status” of the SSPX. This is a theological curve-ball thrown for a strike on the inside. In terms Fr. H would perhaps be … Read More
Archd. of Santa Fe out over its skiis
Interesting factoid from the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. Archbishop Wester has solemnly pronounced that the SSPX is “not Catholic” and that Catholics may not attend Mass or receive sacraments at the SSPX chapel in Albuquerque. HERE “Not Catholic”… that goes … Read More
ASK FATHER: Can a bishop forbid people from attending Masses of the SSPX?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I was wondering if the diocesan ordinary has the authority to forbid the faithful from attending a particular mass. A common example of this would be the masses celebrated by the SSPX. Though the canonical status … Read More
Look what these men are building… a Marian beacon in the plains.
Meanwhile… Traditiones custodes and merciful accompaniment for the flock on the periphery. Become a Custos traditionis.
Posted in Just Too Cool, Our Catholic Identity, Our Solitary Boast, SSPX, The future and our choices
Tagged SSPX
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