“I attend an FSSP parish.”
As do I.
“Yes, the Mass is from the 1962 Missal, but other than that, the parish is part of the Archdiocese.”
Yes, but it is different than any parish in the diocese and is more akin to an Eastern Catholic parish or Anglican Use parish than a “typical” 1970 Paul VI Mass parish.
Look at the facts:
- different liturgy.
- different liturgical language.
- different liturgical calendar. You and I celebrated the Feast of Christ the King weeks ago. Everybody else just did it this past weekend. On January 1st you and I will be celebrating one feast day and everyone else will be celebrating another. You can’t tell me that doesn’t matter.
- different music
- and different language used in music
- different texts used (Douay-Confraternity Bible, Baltimore Catechism, Roman Catechism, often different prayer books, always different Breviary).
- priests are NEVER ordained by the ordinary of that diocese.
- order priests, never diocesan priests.
- order directly dependent on the pope and not any ordinary.
- specially designated parishes which are completely unique in the entire diocese (except for Eastern Catholic or Anglican Use parishes).
“The Bishop administers Confirmation, just as in any other parish in the Diocese.”
Only because we have been denied our own bishop. If we had our own bishop, then that wouldn’t be the case. Your point then doesn’t make much sense. Anglican Use Catholics in North America have their own Bishop now. How about Latin Mass Catholics - people who have always been Catholic - having a Bishop for themselves? Seriously, if a “Western Orthodox” group that used the Sarum liturgy decided to become Catholic we would welcome them with open arms. And they would have their own Bishop soon enough - as they should. And we don’t have one?