[Mershon]

It really doesn't matter what the so-called traditionalists say on this forum. What matters is what the Church teaches. Vatican I and Vatican II in Lumen Gentium 25 make that clear. If you are not attached to the local ordinary (Bishop of Charlotte) who is attached to Rome, then you will not be in full communion with the one, true Church of Jesus Christ, outside of which, there is no salvation. Period. Everyone's opinions on this board notwithstanding.

[royalcello]

It sounds like you have a steadily improving situation in South Carolina, and I congratulate you for that. I will have to try to visit the TLM in Taylors. However, please understand that the Latin mass has been at the very center of my interest in Catholicism from the very beginning and I will not compromise on this issue. I know what the typical AmChurch English Novus Ordo mass is like and have no interest in attending it, ever.

I view the Traditional Latin Mass, the mass of Palestrina and Bach (like me, a non-Catholic), as part of the foundation of Western Civilization. I view the abandonment of Latin/chant/polyphony and the other post-V2 changes as a lamentable surrender to the egalitarian, democratic, anti-intellectual, anti-Western spirit of our age, and as part of the de-Europeanization of American culture and religion. Therefore as an unreconstructed Eurocentric reactionary monarchist I can have nothing to do with the Novus Ordo, although I might make an exception for a Latin N.O. as celebrated at St. Agnes Church in St. Paul, MN. However, I am not moving to Minnesota, I am not moving to South Carolina; I am moving to North Carolina, where the SSPX remains the only option for those desiring to attend a Latin mass.