[BlackElk]

Attendance at FSSP Masses is NOT schism. Nor is attendance at Institute of Christ the King Sovereign priest (our local version) or at the Tridentine Masses said in the Diocese of Rockford by diocesan priests (each and every one of whom have Bishop Doran's permission and encouragement to say the Tridentine Mass) or by the bishop himself or by his chancery officers. Strawman argument! May it be laid to rest.

Is being Catholic somehow not a source of pride? What is not a source of pride is adherence to the SSPX schism. If you do not adhere, you are being waaaay tooooo sensitive. The pope said they are in schism and so they are until some future pope reverses Ecclesia Dei's sanctions (may that never occur!).

If you are attending FSSP Masses and NOT adhering to the SSPX, then you too are in the same Church as Roger Mahoney and not in schism. As the Superior Court of California will probably determine in the pending cornucopia of pedeasty lawsuits against Mahoney and the LA Archdiocese, adherence to SSPX is not the only sin that Church leaders might fall into. The answers to discovery in those cases should cook Mahoney both personally and as ordinary of LA.

Rome is a "Living Magisterium" or no papal pronouncement or dogmatic definition since the Resurrection would have any force whatsoever. I don't think you want to defend such a proposition.

I am by no means sinless but I submit to Church teaching. On that score, as to Mahoney, and charitably speaking, there is no proof that Mahoney submits. Call his an undeclared schism or, perhaps, the old heresy of Americanism as defined by Pope Leo XIII of happy memory.

[Grey Ghost II]

Attendance at FSSP Masses is NOT schism.

Of course, it isn't. But like the good lawyer you are, you toss out the false charge in front of the "jury", only to retract it later when called on it.

Good job, Counselor.