So, in other words, these churches probably have valid priests and valid masses
Silly person! Some of the alleged "
masses", as celebrated by alleged "
priests", might make you squirm in the pews!
Wow, a list of definite "where to go to valid Catholic Mass" listings from your local Novus Ordo bishop's office (mixed in with a sketchy lot of protestant groups).
It's surprisingly kind of the
Novus Ordo diocese to identify the "
traditional" ones.
I've spent arguably waaay too many hours over the last few days applying local knowledge to nailing down details and correcting the diocese's
inexcusably mistaken geography, so that visiting
traditional Catholics would be less likely to make mistakes that they'd regret after settling into the pews.
I'll [...] definitely check out the traditional Catholic chapels they listed. Now I know where to go to Mass the next time I'm in the Orlando, FL area.
That "
area" is referred to locally as "
Central Florida". Of those "schismatic churches" listed by the diocese, only a minority (33%:
6 of 18, hastily counted?) either claim--or plausibly would offer--a
Latin Mass of any vintage.
So despite errors I noticed on the page for 2 sites (only 1 being within the subject-diocese boundary), Retro Catholics' <
www.latinmasstimes.com/Florida>: "Latin Mass in Florida" page, might be a productive starting-point.
If the name of the parish has "Catholic Community" in it, the chances of it having nothing resembling Catholicism are really high.
That's a preconceived notion of mine that my on-line research on the subject-diocesan list is largely confirming. But it seems to me that I noticed a few months ago that Web sites for some
Novus Ordo churches are replacing "Parish" with "
Community" (readers can draw any deductions from
that that they think fits).
I hope I'll be able to post my results within a day or so, possibly separated into 2 follow-ups: 1 for the plausibly traditional ones, and 1 for all the rest (for the sake of
completeness).