To: sinkspur
Traditional Catholics who attend SSPX Masses are not separated from Rome by doing so. Rome itself has stated this. You know this. You've read the letter by Msgr. Perle of Ecclesia Dei saying just this--yet you continue to hurl slander suggesting we are excommunicated. This is about as dishonest as you can get.
To: ultima ratio
Traditional Catholics who attend SSPX Masses are not separated from Rome by doing so.The SSPX Masses are illicit, which means that a Catholic sins by attending them if a Novus Ordo mass is available.
You know this.
22 posted on
07/06/2003 9:12:02 PM PDT by
sinkspur
To: ultima ratio; sinkspur
The only people formally canonically excommunicated are the 4 SSPX Bishops. None of the SSPX Priests, Deacons, or Seminarians coming over to the FSSP from the SSPX have been made to have excommunications lifted, since none ever existed against them in the external forum.
Canon Law guarantees Catholics the right to go to any Mass celebrated in a Catholic rite to satisfy their Sunday obligation. Mere attendance at an SSPX chapel (or a Russian Orthodox one for that matter) does not make one a schismatic. You must reject the authority of the Pope or perform a schismatic act.
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