To: sandyeggo
You need not attend an SSPX chapel to be a true Catholic since it represents only about 20% of the traditionalist movement. Modernism, however, which preaches a new gospel and which aggressively militates against the authentic faith is a false Catholicism. Nothing even a pope might say can make it other than what it actually is--a rebellion against Catholic Tradition. And the Novus Ordo is an essential part of this revolution, contravening even Trent itself.
As St. Paul told the Galatians: "If anyone, if we ourselves or an angel come down from Heaven should preach a gospel at variance with the gospel we have preached to you, let him be anathema. I now repeat what I have said before: if anyone preaches a gospel at variance with the gospel which you received, let him be anathema." This new thing is not Catholicism, it is a falsehood that first suppresses the faith and then destroys it.
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