Why do all on CI need to know these things?  I don’t see any reason, for example, why I need this information about an SSPX chapel in N.Carolina.

Karen

It sounds like the guys in that Holy Name Society aren't entirely right in the head!

Maybe people local to the Charlotte area could attend the next Holy Name Society meeting and gather some intel, and perhaps even voice some of these concerns?

The next meeting is Saturday, February 7 at 6:00 PM, after the 5:00 PM Low Mass. They provide a meal, and I hear the cigars afterwards are pretty good.

Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Church
108 Horseshoe Bend Beach Road
Mount Holly, NC 28120

It takes basic reason and logic to see how accepting an “Apostolic Blessing” from someone like Leo. Leo is an open heretic who actively drags the image of Catholicism through the mud with his ecuмenical inter-Faith meetings, appointment or pro-sodomite Bishops, and “blessing” of ice blocks at climate change events. Not to mention his public adherence to and promotion of synodality and Vatican II, which is a clearly heretical council which teaches the opposite several Catholic dogmas. Anyone who claims to be on the side of Tradition who genuinely thinks that Leo is Catholic, and accepts an “Apostolic Blessing” from him, is not using their facultative reasoning, and instead letting their emotions and desire to promote their big New St. Anthony Project get the best of them. It doesn’t matter if he’s the Pope here or not, he’s an open heretic who doesn’t practice True Catholicism. Accepting any sort of blessing or endorsement from Leo in order to promote their fanciful does that the SSPX is “in full communion with Rome” is a CLEAR compromise with the Tradition, and with the Catholic Faith. I go to St. Anthony, I like the community there. I think we could be a good group of True Traditionalists. But if you don’t want to actually stand up and fight for True Tradition, rejecting the Modernists to their face, then you don’t love the Catholic Faith, or Tradition. You just like the Latin Mass.

Fanciful ideas*

By the way, there is no chance this thread could constitute detraction. Just for starters, no "person" has even been named!

No person has been named explicitly, but the identities of the two individuals whom the OP described as "running everything" are trvially decipherable to anyone who attends Saint Anthony's...and this thread is currently being circulated around the chapel.

(I'm not asserting that any detraction took place. Just pointing out that statements made about certain individuals in this thread might as well be pinned to the chapel door--the faithful are reading it.)

The OP gives the impression that the HNS is running wild at the chapel with no oversight. I'm not sure if that was his intent, but I would push back on such a characterization. The HNS has no real authority other than to make recommendations to the priest assigned to the chapel, who ultimately signs off on (or vetoes) any decisions.

The social media videos are not to my taste, but I don't personally see the big deal with photos of Novus Ordo clergy in the vestibule. Masses at the chapel are offered in union with the Pope Leo and local diocesan bishop. Is offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to an alleged antipope not a far greater "scandal" than a random picture hung up in the vestibule?

Same deal with the Papal blessing. The position of the current SSPX is that Pope Leo is the pope, and I've only ever been admonished from the pulpit against sedevacantism. Should we be surprised when some men from a chapel whose clergy profess fidelity to Pope Leo solicit a blessing from that same Pope?