What are your thoughts on the FSSP?

Husband wants to go to the FSSP exclusively now. He is very hostile towards the SSPX.

FSSP Mass is great.  It's in Latin, it's typically full of reverent people, it's growing, and best of all--it's recognized.

Fr. Timothy Dolan, over at my parish, managed to host the FSSP while they were looking for a home in this town (they were formerly based in an old building on the bad side of town).  Fr. Tim fell in love with the Latin Mass, and these days, he seems to prefer it.  It's great when I hear him talk about how proud he is of his parishioners.  Sts. Peter and Paul parish has come a long way.  Fr. Tim has continued the Tridentine Mass in our parish, even though it's not an official FSSP parish.  It's just plain Catholic.  

I'm even starting to see hints here and there of the Hispanic and American population coming together bit by bit.  It's taking time, but the universal language of the Church is unifying groups that typically avoid each other.  More must be done, of course.  But Tradition is the answer, nonetheless.  

What are we to think of the Fraternity of St. Peter?

Since the introduction of the new sacramental rites, Rome had allowed no religious society or congregation exclusive use of the older rites. Then on June 30, 1988, Archbishop Lefebvre consecrated four bishops to ensure the survival of the traditional priesthood and sacraments, and especially of the traditional Latin Mass.

Suddenly, within two days, Pope John Paul II recognized (Ecclesia Dei Afflicta, July 2, 1988) the “rightful aspirations” (for these things) of those who wouldn’t support Archbishop Lefebvre’s stance, and offered to give to them what he had always refused the Archbishop. A dozen or so priests of the SSPX accepted this “good will” and broke away to found the Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP).

 The Fraternity of St. Peter is founded upon more than questionable principles, for the following reasons:

1. It accepts that the Conciliar Church has the power:

•to take away the Mass of all time (for the  Novus Ordo Missae is not another form of this,  question 5),

• to grant it to those only who accept the same Conciliar Church’s novel orientations (in life, belief, structures),

• to declare non-Catholic those who deny this by word or deed (An interpretation of "Everyone should be aware that formal adherence to the schism [of Archbishop Lefebvre] is a grave offense against God and carries the penalty of excommunication." Ecclesia Dei Afflicata), and,

•to professes itself in a certain way in communion with anyone calling himself “Christian,” and yet to declare itself out of communion with Catholics whose sole crime is wanting to remain Catholic (Vatican II, e.g., Lumen Gentium, §15; Unitatis Redintegratio §3).


2. In practice, the priests of the Fraternity, having recourse to a Novus Ordo bishop willing to permit the traditional rites and willing to ordain their candidates, they are forced to abandon the fight against the new religion which is being installed:


• they reject the  Novus Ordo Missae only because it is not their “spirituality” and claim the traditional Latin Mass only in virtue of their “charism” acknowledged them by the pope,

• they seek to ingratiate themselves with the local bishops, praising them for the least sign of Catholic spirit and keeping quiet on their modernist deviations (unless perhaps it is a question of a diocese where they have no hopes of starting up), even though by doing so they end up encouraging them along their wrong path, and

•note, for example, the Fraternity’s whole-hearted acceptance of the (New) Catechism of the Catholic Church (question 14), acceptance of Novus Ordo professors in their seminaries, and blanket acceptance of Vatican II’s orthodoxy (question 6).


They are therefore Conciliar Catholics and not traditional Catholics.

http://archives.sspx.org/SSPX_FAQs/q13_fraternity_of_st_peter.htm


 
 





 
 

What are your thoughts on the FSSP?

Husband wants to go to the FSSP exclusively now. He is very hostile towards the SSPX.

Hostile towards the SSPX so he wants to go to FSSP?

The SSPX, for all their faults, do not support the NO abomination as the FSSP certainly does.

If he goes to FSSP, that'll just mean one less compromiser in the SSPX, which is good for the SSPX, and he'll be among those supporting the NO, along with other smell-n-bell compromisers.
 

 





 

It depends on your thoughts on the validity of the new rites for the Sacraments, particularly Holy Orders.  FSSP priests are ordained by Novus Order bishops, almost all of whom have been consecrated in the new rite.  If you believe the new rite to be invalid, then they are not actually bishops, and, consequently, the FSSP priests are not actually priests.

Like Kane in that TV show Kung Fu you need to wander around sometimes to find where you fit.
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Uncut modernist advice.  

Quote from: ggreg

Like Kane in that TV show Kung Fu you need to wander around sometimes to find where you fit.
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Uncut modernist advice.  

What's your advice?