I think that it's an assumption on this writer's part that the Gibson's are SSPX. I think they assumed they are, since they are told the church is not part of the diocese.
I read there was a church in LA that Mel attended, but left when it went SSPX.
It's no secret that they (like others) are traditional in the fact that they reject the liturgical forms of Vatican II.
: I have my doubts about the insinuations the writer of this article is making, without having all the facts.
Liturgical forms od Vatican II? The current Mass has nothing to do with Vatican II. It was created after Vatican II, and if you read the Vatican II liturgical document, it was ignored in creating the current Mass.
I have understood for some time that Hutton Gibson (I don't know about Mel and don't really want to know) holds a sedevacantist position; I know he has actually criticized the SSPX in the past and I believe he even has said that Abp Lefebvre was not himself validly consecrated a bishop because his principal consecrator was Cardinal Lienart who was (according to H. Gibson) a Freemason! I have it on good information that Hutton attended the local sedevacantist chapel here in Houston (no, I have never been there) when he lived here.
This would kind of add up with the evidence that Mel left Our Lady of the Angels in Arcadia, CA, some time after the SSPX took it over from its retiring "independent" priest.
I know I can count on you, Karen.
Maybe you should lobby to be Mel's press agent?
I agree with that statement. Let's have all the facts first.
Tridentine isn't offered only by SSPX, as then Cardinal Ratzinger said in 1996: “So, as you can see, you can be very much a part of the Tridentine Mass and still be in communion with Rome.”