[sitetest]

Dear Bud,

"...when it is YOU and not the Pope, who has declared the faithful who attend SSPX Masses as schismatic."

I've never said that assisting at SSPX Masses automatically makes one a schismatic. I have noted that the Church teaches that regularly assisting at these Masses leads to a schismatic mentality. The conclusion of this is that some who assist at such Masses have become schismatics. And once in a while, one can clearly see that manifest in a particular individual.

I have also noted that those who regularly assist at schismatic Masses are in danger of becoming schismatics, themselves, and that the Holy Father has told us not to assist at these Masses.

However, unlike you, I have not generalized that 97% of Catholics have a faith that is "as shallow as a bird bath".

But, I see that your argument, in any event, is nothing more than the ad hominem fallacy tu quoque - "you, also". Unable to respond to the fact that you have falsely denigrated the faith of 97% of the Catholics in the world, your response is "Well, you do it, too!"

sitetest

[ultima ratio]

What, pray tell, is a "schismatic mentality"? Who has defined it? What encyclical has denounced it? What is this strange malady that you catch while attending a traditional Mass at an SSPX chapel? Do you catch it from listening to a homily on the Gospel? Do you catch it from listening to Gregorian chant? Maybe you catch it from having coffee with other families comparing notes on homeschooling. It must be a terrible malady--so many of you Novus Ordo types keep worrying about it.