A good article, that points to the question all those attached to "Tradition" must confront: the essence of the Novus Ordo.
I remember the SSPX's Fr. Peter Scott's posting on the New Mass, how it "remains a sacrilege, and is in itself sinful" - yet still coming from a true pope, the rite of the true governing hierarchy of the Church. Good grief!!!
While indulters are attacked often here, it seems to me that there are only two viable solutions regarding the New Mass: a) the view of the indulters or SSPX or Resistance types who do not share that view (I think of Bishop Williamson's fairly recent statements on the New Mass, and it seems to me that they indicate he would reject such a view as Father Scott's - but I welcome discussion/comment on that), who I think would (and logically should) emphatically reject such a conclusion of Fr. Scott's as absurd, and b) the view of the Sedes, who act consistently in light of such a view as Fr. Scott's by rejecting the hierarchy from which the New Mass came and comes.
For the life of me, I don't understand how one could share a view of Fr. Scott and remain of the view that the post-Conciliar "Institutional Church" is the true Church of Christ. To the extent that that is, or ever was, an official position of the SSPX, it baffles me.
Having said that, I adhere to the SSPX view (I believe shared by both the "Resistance" and the Bishop Fellay crowd) as a general principle, or in terms of a hermeneutic: the true hierarchy can err in teaching, or go astray on points that seem to touch on faith and morals, but not in a way that would endanger one of the faithful that remained in union with it.
Which is why I see such an extreme view of the Novus Ordo such as expressed by Fr. Scott, and addressed in Louie's article, as indeed absurd, since a true hierarchy and true pope could not feed the sheep of the true Church with a Mass that is sacrilegious or sinful.
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