Second, the Catholic faithful have a genuine right to liturgy that is reverent, rubrically correct, and nourishing of their life of faith. First, the salus animarum or salvation of souls is the basis of all of the Church’s law and discipline. We must place two principles at the basis of our reasoning. They are, to use the technical language, in an “irregular ecclesial situation” or “imperfect communion”. This implies that there is no definitive rupture. As it is, they are under the care of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which deals with problems internal to the Catholic Church. If the SSPX were in schism, its priests would have been handed over to the curial department for Christian ecumenical relations - namely, the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. My article proceeds on the basis of the assumption that the SSPX is not in a state of formal schism. What follows is my best effort to explain the advice I would give, and why. Searching for the best answers to these sorts of inquiries, I wanted to find the principles by which prudential judgments about Mass attendance could be made. I am deeply sympathetic to the plight of millions of Catholics who find themselves “between a rock and a hard place” due to the wreckovation of the Catholic liturgy in the 1960s, compared to which the wreckovations done to church buildings were a mere afterthought. Would we be allowed to attend the SSPX Mass to fulfill our Sunday and holy day obligations?” There’s no other traditional Mass for over an hour’s distance. About 30 minutes away there is an SSPX chapel. The most common scenario I have been asked about is the following: “Our local parish has only the Novus Ordo, and it’s celebrated with altar girls, extraordinary ministers, communion in the hand, and music that makes the flesh crawl.
Over the years, many people have written to me for advice about attending Mass when their local situation is deplorably bad. The Post-Vatican II Collapse of Theology.
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