https://freerepublic.com/tag/gotoconfession/ en-us Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:55:59 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/4387696/posts As any Catholic master of ceremonies will tell you, it takes only the tiniest sartorial mishap to lend a Python-esque flavour to moments of the utmost solemnity. On 1 July the rebel traditionalist Society of St Pius X (SSPX) created four new bishops in defiance of Pope Leo XIV during a five-hour open-air Latin Mass in a Swiss alpine meadow. The consecrating prelates wore dark-red velvet chasubles over scarlet-and-gold dalmatics with matching gloves. They descended from their thrones bearing sacred chrism. Afterwards the new bishops stood in a row, mitres perched on their heads for the first time. For traditionalist... The Spectator https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/4387696/posts#comment Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:55:59 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/4387617/posts A systematic dissection of the Vatican’s legal framework reveals what independent canonists and traditionalists view as a deep-seated crisis of consistency within modern Catholic governance. When the theological and legal arguments used against the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) are laid bare alongside the treatment of the Eastern Orthodox amd protestants, the structural defense provided by Rome (that it is merely maintaining public order and guarding the sacred nature of the sacramental contract) it effectively implodes under the weight of its own internal contradictions. What remains is a system that appears to onlookers not as a defense of immutable... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/4387617/posts#comment Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:00:35 GMT