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Re: Avoid the Novus Ordo Mass, yes. Not every Catholic who attends it!
« Reply #15 on: April 19, 2019, 05:01:38 PM »
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  • You are focusing on the too-narrow issue of the new mass, as being only a change of rite.  The issue with new-catholics are the V2 ideals they hold either explicitly or implicitly, consciously or unconsciously, fully or partially.  These false ideals (i.e. the heresies of Modernism in V2...AND the heresies promoted in the 50 years since) they will gradually absorb from the V2 priests, who had V2 seminary training, and from the V2 philosophies of many other liberal/progressive "catholics" who write books, speak, etc and who are promoted by such priests, or at least condoned by their silence.  Those poor novus ordo/indult catholics "don't know what they don't know" and they are being corrupted SYSTEMATICALLY, in schools, in seminaries, in books, in speeches, in false-translations of encyclicals, etc.  All of this happens outside of the 1.5 hrs on sunday at mass.  So even if they go to a "conservative" priest who says a "conservative" novus ordo, their faith is being consistently, systematically and slowly attacked every day of the week by numerous wolves who hide in sheep's clothing.  The problem is much larger than the new rite.
    What I had in mind of a Catholic who holds the full faith but attends NO would be one who grew up, was catechised before the V2 reforms and then just continued going to Mass without questioning it after V2 - because well, why would they assume the Church had suddenly flown off the rails? Such a person could be completely unaffected by V2 novelties. Furthermore, there are tons of conservative NOs who were born after V2 who reject ecuмenism and BOD, whereas even Trad founders and leaders such as +ABL embraced BOD. So to frame it as "Everyone in the NO must be at least a material heretic and all/most Trads are not" isn't really accurate. While on Cathinfo most people seem to reject BOD, the SSPX do and have always accepted it(and that's in the modern "other religions can be saved" form, not the old catechumen form) and they're probably the biggest chunk of Trads. 

    Most of the heresies that modern "Catholics" embrace aren't even teachings of the Conciliar Church(although they can still be blamed for their spread).


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    Re: Avoid the Novus Ordo Mass, yes. Not every Catholic who attends it!
    « Reply #16 on: April 19, 2019, 05:07:26 PM »
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    1: I get the reasoning behind staying home rather than attending a Novus Ordo, but would you also stay home rather than attending a Tridentine Mass at a place like the FSSP if those were your only options?  And if so why?  Why would doing that increase your chances of saving your soul?
    If an indult mass were my only option, I wouldn't go.  Why?  Because those indult priests also say the new mass; and if they don't, they have to publically accept the novus ordo as being "just as good" (and so does everyone in attendance, even the laity, as +Benedict stated in his "motu").  The indult mass is a philosophical "pinch of incense" where you are making the smallest of concessions to the new-religion of V2, which represents Modernism, Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ and all that is anti-Council of Trent.  An indult mass is like a catholic eating a nice piece of apple pie, while their novus ordo neighbors are eating a moldy, rotten apple.  The indult catholic knows the new mass is moldy and rotten but they have promised to stay silent and in exchange, they can keep their nice apple pie.  Meanwhile, their catholic "friends" are getting sick from the moldy apple and are losing their faith and missing out on untold amounts of grace.  Where is the charity in this, watching your friends lose their faith?  Where is the Catholic fortitude in keeping silent about error?  Where is the Catholic spirit in a one who accepts evil to receive good?  Does the end now justify the means?  When did this become acceptable?
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    Admittedly, I take a hard-line stance that others may not.  However, I'd say that for those of you who don't like to be "extreme", if you decide to go to the indult mass, make that a short-term decision until you can find a True Traditional Mass.  I would not stay in a situation where the Indult is your only option.  You will eventually get sucked into the V2 vortex and your "traditional catholic" badge of honor will be forever tarnished.  


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    2: What if your only option was a Byzantine Rite liturgy that hasn't been changed with Vatican II, but is still in communion with what you'd call the Conciliar Church?  Would you stay home rather than attending and receiving the sacraments there?  If so, why, and why do you think that would increase your chances of saving your soul?
    I don't know enough about Eastern liturgies to say.


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    Re: Avoid the Novus Ordo Mass, yes. Not every Catholic who attends it!
    « Reply #17 on: April 19, 2019, 05:19:12 PM »
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    What I had in mind of a Catholic who holds the full faith but attends NO would be one who grew up, was catechised before the V2 reforms and then just continued going to Mass without questioning it after V2 - because well, why would they assume the Church had suddenly flown off the rails?
    Firstly, that generation is mostly dead.  Secondly, i've talked to many in that generation and everyone knew that V2 was a change.  The new mass was such a stark, quick and violent rupture with the past that it shocked everyone.  No one could hide from the changes.  You either accepted them through "obedience" (knowing the changes weren't right), you accepted them because you were a liberal at heart who wanted an "easy" Church, or you walked away from the changes and became a Trad.


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    Such a person could be completely unaffected by V2 novelties.
    The only people who didn't realize that V2 was different, were those who didn't know their faith beforehand.


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    Furthermore, there are tons of conservative NOs who were born after V2 who reject ecuмenism and BOD,
    There are many more heresies of V2 than ecuмenism and BOD.  How about "religious liberty"?  How about no salvation outside of the Church (this is separate from BOD)?  Then there's the moral issues which have/will damn many others, even if they reject ecuмenism and BOD - NFP, false-annullments, gαy civil unions, voting for pro-choice candidates, condoning family members who apostasize and become pagan or protestant, accepting sex-ed in schools, accepting euthanasia, etc, etc.  All of these "social issues" are promoted by the local archdiocese.  Even if one attends an indult mass, you are exposed to these dangers to your faith, these temptations to sin, these temptations to compromise.  These dangers are not inconsequential.

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    Re: Avoid the Novus Ordo Mass, yes. Not every Catholic who attends it!
    « Reply #18 on: April 19, 2019, 05:29:05 PM »
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  • Firstly, that generation is mostly dead.  Secondly, i've talked to many in that generation and everyone knew that V2 was a change.  The new mass was such a stark, quick and violent rupture with the past that it shocked everyone.  No one could hide from the changes.  You either accepted them through "obedience" (knowing the changes weren't right), you accepted them because you were a liberal at heart who wanted an "easy" Church, or you walked away from the changes and became a Trad.

    The only people who didn't realize that V2 was different, were those who didn't know their faith beforehand.

    There are many more heresies of V2 than ecuмenism and BOD.  How about "religious liberty"?  How about no salvation outside of the Church (this is separate from BOD)?  Then there's the moral issues which have/will damn many others, even if they reject ecuмenism and BOD - NFP, false-annullments, gαy civil unions, voting for pro-choice candidates, condoning family members who apostasize and become pagan or protestant, accepting sex-ed in schools, accepting euthanasia, etc, etc.  All of these "social issues" are promoted by the local archdiocese.  Even if one attends an indult mass, you are exposed to these dangers to your faith, these temptations to sin, these temptations to compromise.  These dangers are not inconsequential.
    First paragraph: I'm assuming he means the group who accepted the changes not because they were liberals at heart, but because of obedience.

    Last paragraph:  What does "condoning family members who apostasize" mean exactly?

    Do you believe Lefebvre rejected no salvation outside the Church?  Why or why not?

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    Re: Avoid the Novus Ordo Mass, yes. Not every Catholic who attends it!
    « Reply #19 on: April 19, 2019, 05:48:04 PM »
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    First paragraph: I'm assuming he means the group who accepted the changes not because they were liberals at heart, but because of obedience.
    Right, but he was minimizing the changes and arguing that those who lived during the 60s and 70s didn't think the changes were "that bad".  That's revisionist history.  Anyone who had an 8th grade understanding of the Faith knew that the new mass was more than just "different".  It was a revolutionary and shocking thing.  Those that quieted their consciences by claiming blind obedience knew that the changes were wrong.
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    What does "condoning family members who apostasize" mean exactly?
    The false idea that a person who stops going to church or switches to protestantism is to be "accepted as they are" because "who are (their family members) to judge".  How many families today accept the errors of other family members by their silence or do so for human respect?  The same heretical mindset is promoted by V2 that any sincere person can be saved in any religion.
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    Do you believe Lefebvre rejected no salvation outside the Church?
    Of course he didn't reject it.  But his understanding of BOD was not 100% orthodox, so his understanding of "no salvation" was faulty.  (By the way, this is why BOD was promoted to begin with by the Modernists in the 30s - to water down the "no salvation" doctrine, so they could usher in V2's new ecclesiology, to pave the way for their hoped-for, freemasonic 'one world religion').  The problem with BOD is that saints do mention it, but the Church has never defined it.  So having a faulty BOD belief is not the same as having a faulty faith due to the indult (in case that's where you were going with this).  Every V2 error has been soundly, clearly and absolutely rejected by a dogmatic statement in the past.  Not so with BOD - there's much misunderstanding and gray area.


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    Re: Avoid the Novus Ordo Mass, yes. Not every Catholic who attends it!
    « Reply #20 on: April 19, 2019, 06:01:09 PM »
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  • Wow- it seems we are talking levels or degrees of Catholicity- I don't think it works that way.
    Of course it's about the Faith, but it's also about validity.
    How can an average Catholic remain Catholic without a valid Episcopacy, Priesthood and Sacraments? If these are in doubt aren't you just "playing Catholic"? Wasn't the VII rupture and ambiguity the greatest betrayer of our souls ever?
    The Catholics that are in the Indult or the NO maybe individually saved saved by their personal faith (?), but certainly not by doubtful rites and sacraments. 
    We have an FSSP parish 2 miles away from our home,  yet we travel 2 hrs once a month for a "basement" Mass with legitimate Sacraments. There really was no other choice here. 
    Being in the FSSP is NOT a good place to be. You get the trappings of "tradition" without any assurance of valid sacraments. it's a fakeout. We were there. The Masses were well sung and beautiful, and the Chapel was amazing; the parish life was animated and interesting.But knowing what I know now, I realize that without absolute certainty of what I was receiving Sacramentally, I may as well have been at an Episcopalian service.
    You may very well be Catholic and attend those rites, but for how long without the assurance of Sacramental Grace?
    I don't think moving past the FSSP is just an upgrade- it's really everything.

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    Re: Avoid the Novus Ordo Mass, yes. Not every Catholic who attends it!
    « Reply #21 on: April 19, 2019, 06:01:28 PM »
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    Right, but he was minimizing the changes and arguing that those who lived during the 60s and 70s didn't think the changes were "that bad".  That's revisionist history.  Anyone who had an 8th grade understanding of the Faith knew that the new mass was more than just "different".  It was a revolutionary and shocking thing.  Those that quieted their consciences by claiming blind obedience knew that the changes were wrong.

    Right, but even if they were wrong, the question still remains of in what way they're wrong. ie. do you consider them no longer Catholic, or merely in error and endangering their faith.  That seems to be what the OP is about, you seem to be saying the former and Matthew seems to be saying the latter.


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    The false idea that a person who stops going to church or switches to protestantism is to be "accepted as they are" because "who are (their family members) to judge".  How many families today accept the errors of other family members by their silence or do so for human respect?
     For my own part, I am a new convert (as I've mentioned.)  If I have kids some day and one them went Protestant, I would certainly make clear to them that I disapprove, that I seriously fear for their soul, and I would inform them that I intend to pray for their conversion.  So I definitely wouldn't just "accept it."  Would you go further than that, or is that about the same as you would do?  Would you refuse to have anything to do with them?


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    The same heretical mindset is promoted by V2 that any sincere person can be saved in any religion.Of course he didn't reject it.  But his understanding of BOD was not 100% orthodox, so his understanding of "no salvation" was faulty.  (By the way, this is why BOD was promoted to begin with by the Modernists in the 30s - to water down the "no salvation" doctrine, so they could usher in V2's new ecclesiology, to pave the way for their hoped-for, freemasonic 'one world religion').  The problem with BOD is that saints do mention it, but the Church has never defined it.  So having a faulty BOD belief is not the same as having a faulty faith due to the indult (in case that's where you were going with this).  Every V2 error has been soundly, clearly and absolutely rejected by a dogmatic statement in the past.  Not so with BOD - there's much misunderstanding and gray area.
    To be honest, I'm not going much of anywhere in particular.  As I've mentioned, I'm a new convert, and I'm mostly here to learn.  I might state tentative opinions in the pursuit/interest of that end, but I'm not trying to prove myself right, or anyone else wrong, on this forum.  My goal here is primarily to ask questions, listen, and learn.

    1: The reason I asked about Lefebvre is because he clearly saw the notion of "Outside the Church there is no salvation" as compatible with the notion that someone could visibly belong to a false religion and still be "inside the Church" somehow.  Your position seems to be that Lefebvre was wrong to say this, but that his erroneously saying so does not constitute either a denial of the dogma or sufficient to make him a heretic.  Given that that's the case, I'm not seeing why you wouldn't give the same charitable assessment to those in the indult who believe basically the same thing.  To be clear, I'm not saying there isn't a good reason, I'm just saying I don't understand what that reason would be.

    2: Does even Vatican II say a sincere person can be saved in any religion?  I remember hearing Bishop Barron's whole interview with Shapiro when he said Vatican II says an atheist of good will can be saved according to Lumen Gentium.  And my initial reaction was "I have concerns about Lumen Gentium, but I don't think it says that."  And then I looked Lumen Gentium up, and sure enough, it doesn't say that.  I don't think *even* Vatican II says that someone can be saved without having any supernatural faith at all, furthermore, while Vatican II certainly leaves itself open to the interpretation that someone can in fact be saved while professing a false religion, I don't see how its impossible to read Lumen Gentium as compatible with the notion that if someone with no fault of their own followed the natural law, etc. that God would instead send an angel to such a person rather than leaving them ignorant.  Am I wrong about this?  And if so, why?  (To be clear, I'm not meaning this to be an apology for LG, as it seems to me that the wording was deliberately left very open ended, and that's concerning to me.) 

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    Re: Avoid the Novus Ordo Mass, yes. Not every Catholic who attends it!
    « Reply #22 on: April 19, 2019, 06:10:03 PM »
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  • Firstly, that generation is mostly dead.  Secondly, i've talked to many in that generation and everyone knew that V2 was a change.  The new mass was such a stark, quick and violent rupture with the past that it shocked everyone.  No one could hide from the changes.  You either accepted them through "obedience" (knowing the changes weren't right), you accepted them because you were a liberal at heart who wanted an "easy" Church, or you walked away from the changes and became a Trad.
    Anyone in their late 70s and older was probably catechised before V2 was finished, or before V2 reforms were put in place. And most NO masses are mostly the elderly these days, so it's quite a large proportion of people who still attend Mass regularly. The toning down and declawing of catechising in schools was a very gradual process too, my father who went to school after V2 was still catechised well in school and told all the "non-PC" things they'd be afraid to teach today(e.g EENS). So my grandparents had no reason to be concerned with what the Brothers were teaching him, and even in a scenario where the teaching had been toned down, most people would put that down to modernists refusing to teach properly rather than the Church actually abandoning its dogmas.

    And people were shocked by the changes to the Mass, but the Church had decreed what the Church had decreed. For most people it was out of question to just stop going to Mass, and they'd be afraid of committing schism by attending societies such as the SSPX if they had even heard of them. For example, Tolkein famously continued to shout out Latin responses in Mass, so he was very upset with the new rite. But he kept attending the NO despite clearly preferring the old rite, and I believe it's for the reasons I listed.

    There are many more heresies of V2 than ecuмenism and BOD.  How about "religious liberty"?  How about no salvation outside of the Church (this is separate from BOD)?
    I just named some examples. EENS is not separate from BOD, as BOD(in its modern incarnation at least - that people of non-Catholic religions can be saved) is the rejection of EENS. Or, at least in our view. The SSPX don't agree with that statement of mine.

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    Then there's the moral issues which have/will damn many others, even if they reject ecuмenism and BOD - NFP, false-annullments, gαy civil unions, voting for pro-choice candidates, condoning family members who apostasize and become pagan or protestant, accepting sex-ed in schools, accepting euthanasia, etc, etc.  All of these "social issues" are promoted by the local archdiocese.  Even if one attends an indult mass, you are exposed to these dangers to your faith, these temptations to sin, these temptations to compromise.  These dangers are not inconsequential.
    None of those are actually teachings of even the Conciliar Church though, that was exactly my point and I've already addressed it. Why would someone stop attending their local parish Mass because some other diocese had some pro-gαy event or whatever? What does that have to do with the Mass


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    « Reply #23 on: April 19, 2019, 06:13:26 PM »
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    I just named some examples. EENS is not separate from BOD, as BOD(in its modern incarnation at least - that people of non-Catholic religions can be saved) is the rejection of EENS. Or, at least in our view. The SSPX don't agree with that statement of mine. 
    But even if you're right about that, do you have the authority to determine that someone is a heretic because they disagree with you on that?

    "I know the Church teaches the immaculate conception, but I just don't believe it."  If someone says that, they just clearly aren't a Catholic.  Like they're straight up denying a dogma.  That's clear.

    "I believe that Outside the Church there is no salvation, but I disagree with your interpretation of it, [insert reason here]" seems way less clear, either way.


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    Re: Avoid the Novus Ordo Mass, yes. Not every Catholic who attends it!
    « Reply #24 on: April 19, 2019, 06:20:06 PM »
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  • But even if you're right about that, do you have the authority to determine that someone is a heretic because they disagree with you on that?

    "I know the Church teaches the immaculate conception, but I just don't believe it."  If someone says that, they just clearly aren't a Catholic.  Like they're straight up denying a dogma.  That's clear.

    "I believe that Outside the Church there is no salvation, but I disagree with your interpretation of it, [insert reason here]" seems way less clear, either way.
    I wasn't making a statement of fact or calling anyone a heretic. I just stated what the modern BOD is and how it contradicts what most of us here interpret EENS to be, and then I even went on to say that the SSPX for example do not agree that BOD conflicts with EENS. We could argue until the cows come home about whether or not BOD is heresy, but it's completely irrelevant to this argument. The point is that what we would call the novelty of BOD is actually believed by a majority of Trads too, so it's a misrepresentation of the issue to paint it as Trad vs NO. 

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    « Reply #25 on: April 19, 2019, 08:08:35 PM »
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  • What I had in mind of a Catholic who holds the full faith but attends NO would be one who grew up, was catechised before the V2 reforms and then just continued going to Mass without questioning it after V2 - because well, why would they assume the Church had suddenly flown off the rails? Such a person could be completely unaffected by V2 novelties. Furthermore, there are tons of conservative NOs who were born after V2 who reject ecuмenism and BOD, whereas even Trad founders and leaders such as +ABL embraced BOD. So to frame it as "Everyone in the NO must be at least a material heretic and all/most Trads are not" isn't really accurate. While on Cathinfo most people seem to reject BOD, the SSPX do and have always accepted it(and that's in the modern "other religions can be saved" form, not the old catechumen form) and they're probably the biggest chunk of Trads.

    Most of the heresies that modern "Catholics" embrace aren't even teachings of the Conciliar Church(although they can still be blamed for their spread).
    My parents fall into the first category, one that is quickly dying out.  Remember, Vat. 2 finished in 1965.  There are many still living who were young adults, teens, or children at that time, or who came of catechism age under John XXIII up through the early 70s.  IOW, too young to know, or devout, but poorly catchised.  My folks are in their 90's and still attend the novus ordo, health permitting. They were both poorly educated on Catholic dogma and know very little of Church history, no fault of their own.  They were raised, like nearly all Catholics of their day, to be obedient to authority, especially Church authority, agree or not!  They learned their prayers, and the catechism by rote, not meaning.  They were tested for the Sacraments by rote recitation of the catechism.  
    Those who came later weren't taught dogma, either.  They threw out the old catechisms, threw out the rote, and were taught touchy-feely pablum and communist social justice.  The sheep were first set up to accept lies, and the lies were fed to their off-spring.  My parents won't attend the Old Mass, even though I think they want to, because they asked "Fr. Mike" about it and he said it was a mortal sin!  The only place they could go, although he didn't recommend it, was to the diocesan approved Indult, a 60 mile drive one way.  That was ten years ago when I began making biweekly drives through two states to hear Mass.  Prior to this, I'd tried out various Protestant churches, went to the novus ordo after reading Jurgen's Lives of the Saints---all of it, the original edition.  After a short time, I saw that Vat. 2 had all but destroyed the true  faith, and that I'd been gypped out of my religion.  It resulted in arguments that always ended up with the good fruit the Catholic practices with which my parents raised us, still practice themselves, even my siblings do not.  Despite them attending the new mass, I have no doubt they have the Faith.  Their parish is still conservative enough, Fr. Mike, notwithstanding, that Rosaries are seen among the older folks, and one can receive communion on the tongue, if desired.  They always go to the priest's line, not the aging hippie lady eucharistic minister.  They just lack the grace of understanding.  There's a built in resistance to studying dogma and scripture without the direct guidance of a qualified religious.  They say it's a result of my foray into Protestantism, that it's not Catholic.  And under normal circuмstances, they're right. 
    Still, for anyone to ascertain my parents are bound for hell is extremely presumptuous.  Not one of us knows for sure where even we ourselves will go, much less the souls of persons unknown to us.  


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    Re: Avoid the Novus Ordo Mass, yes. Not every Catholic who attends it!
    « Reply #26 on: April 19, 2019, 08:18:57 PM »
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  • With regard to the core dogmas, there are more Feeneyites within the Novus Ordo than among Traditional Catholics.  What other error would disqualify them from being Catholics?

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  • With regard to the core dogmas, there are more Feeneyites within the Novus Ordo than among Traditional Catholics.  What other error would disqualify them from being Catholics?
    Honestly, I don't get this, but given that that's the case, I don't know how to agree with the strict "the Novus Ordo is a different religion" approach rather than the more modest "Vatican II is ambiguous enough that its very easy to read in a heterodox way.

    Are there any explicit dogmas on religious liberty?  Even if they are, would getting that wrong disqualify one from being Catholic?  (even if Pius IX's Syllabus of Errors was infallible, couldn't someone think it wasn't?  Or couldn't someone propose a way to reconcile DH and Syllabus of Errors?  Even if doing so was silly, would it make them not Catholic?)

    Do you take the position that only Feeneyites are Catholic? 

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    the question still remains of in what way they're wrong. ie. do you consider them no longer Catholic, or merely in error and endangering their faith
    They are in error; material heresy.  Thus, they do not possess the Faith fully, in general.  I never said they weren't catholic.


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    So I definitely wouldn't just "accept it."  Would you go further than that, or is that about the same as you would do?  Would you refuse to have anything to do with them?
    It depends on the situation.  If you had some family member who was gαy, I wouldn't allow them to bring over a partner to the house.  This applies to an unmarried couple as well.  If a catholic relative simply stopped going to church, there's no reason to shun them socially unless they're activist about it.  Your standards might be stricter if you have children who could be scandalized.  You want to be as charitable as you can be, if the situation allows.


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    1: The reason I asked about Lefebvre is because he clearly saw the notion of "Outside the Church there is no salvation" as compatible with the notion that someone could visibly belong to a false religion and still be "inside the Church" somehow.  Your position seems to be that Lefebvre was wrong to say this, but that his erroneously saying so does not constitute either a denial of the dogma or sufficient to make him a heretic.  

    It's hard for me to label +ABL because 1) I never talked to him personally nor was I able to get clarification on his quotes, 2) quotes can be taken out of context, 3) He flip-flopped on this issue so it's hard to say what he definitively thought.

    At best, he was simply playing devil's advocate and engaging in theological speculation.  At worse, at a few points in time, he made comments that were objectively and materially heretical.  This does not make him a formal heretic, but just wrong on a particular point.  Further, as I said before, the issue of BOD and salvation is a complex one which the Church has not adequately explained.


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    Given that that's the case, I'm not seeing why you wouldn't give the same charitable assessment to those in the indult who believe basically the same thing.  To be clear, I'm not saying there isn't a good reason, I'm just saying I don't understand what that reason would be.
    Comparing +ABL with an indult catholic is like comparing an apple to a piece of rice - they have nothing in common.  The problem with the typical indult catholic is that they have MULTIPLE and MANY unorthodox views, on many basic catholic beliefs.  The debate over BOD has a complex history.  The indult errors include the entire V2 council, the new-theology of the new mass, and the acceptance of these errors as "normal".  If...and this is a big if...the only error held by an indult'er were the BOD issue, they would still be unorthodox due to their public acceptance of the new mass, which is a requirement to attend the indult.


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    furthermore, while Vatican II certainly leaves itself open to the interpretation that someone can in fact be saved while professing a false religion,
    The lack of clarity in preaching the Truth is just as dangerous, maybe moreso, than a full-blown heresy.

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    Re: Avoid the Novus Ordo Mass, yes. Not every Catholic who attends it!
    « Reply #29 on: April 19, 2019, 09:46:07 PM »
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    Anyone in their late 70s and older was probably catechised before V2 was finished, or before V2 reforms were put in place. And most NO masses are mostly the elderly these days, so it's quite a large proportion of people who still attend Mass regularly. The toning down and declawing of catechising in schools was a very gradual process too, my father who went to school after V2 was still catechised well in school and told all the "non-PC" things they'd be afraid to teach today(e.g EENS). So my grandparents had no reason to be concerned with what the Brothers were teaching him, and even in a scenario where the teaching had been toned down, most people would put that down to modernists refusing to teach properly rather than the Church actually abandoning its dogmas. 
    The issue of changes to schooling is separate from the changes to the Mass.  The new mass came first, and was the priority.  All else came after the new mass was already accepted.  If you were corrupted by the new mass, your Faith was already damaged (and for many, on life support), even if your schooling was mostly "normal".


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    And people were shocked by the changes to the Mass, but the Church had decreed what the Church had decreed. For most people it was out of question to just stop going to Mass, and they'd be afraid of committing schism by attending societies such as the SSPX if they had even heard of them. For example, Tolkein famously continued to shout out Latin responses in Mass, so he was very upset with the new rite. But he kept attending the NO despite clearly preferring the old rite, and I believe it's for the reasons I listed. 
    Traditionalism started day 1 after Vatican 2.  Many catholics of this generation left new-rome and many priests did as well, in order to preserve Tradition.  Your description above is revisionist history.  What Tolkien did, in his particular country, is of no consequence to what 1,000s of Catholics did in America to keep the Faith.


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    Why would someone stop attending their local parish Mass because some other diocese had some pro-gαy event or whatever? What does that have to do with the Mass?
    Traditionalism is about MORE than the mass.  Keeping the Faith is more important than the mass.  A catholic cannot attend his indult mass, where Fr X says a reverent liturgy, and ignore the fact that 2 hours later, Fr Y comes in and dances around (ON THE SAME ALTAR) and makes jokes and hands out wine and cookies.  Or worse, Fr X says both the indult AND the new mass, which is the height of hypocrisy.  This type of action is inconsistent with catholicism - you cannot accept evil to get good.  The end (having a reverent liturgy) does not justify the means (accepting the abominable new mass as the "ordinary" form).