I've cited docuмentation promulgated under three Popes, one of which is canonized. They have seen fit to make a distinction between active and passive attendance and place it in canon law.
That's a half-truth, and based on your repeated half-truths, i'll assume it's now dishonesty.
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Yes, they have made a distinction between passive attendance, but such is allowed only under certain conditions. 1) protestant wedding (not a protestant service), 2) if there is a grave reason for attendance, 3) with permission of your bishop.
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If a future Pope says that is wrong I'll accept his teaching. Until then I will stand by it because I believe it to be the teaching of the Church.
You'll stand by your personal interpretation of it, which is wrong. Go right ahead, no one can stop you. God knows your heart and your hard-headedness in the matter. I'll pray for you to accept humility at some point.
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You have cited a book in which the author unhesitatingly declares that Catholics may attend a protestant wedding or funeral.
Yep, and i've not objected to this once. Notice, neither this priest nor canon law says you can attend a protestant service, only the wedding/funeral. A distinction you repeatedly ignore.
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His objection is that the NO mass is somehow a greater sacrilege that a protestant one. I'm not convinced by his assessment and you have not provided anything, other than your own opinion, to bolster his claim.
Ok, so you don't trust a priest who grew up pre-V2, went to a pre-V2 orthodox seminary, recognized the errors of V2 as they were happening in the 60s, refused to ever say the new mass and left his diocese, with no where to go, and with no $, when his bishop wouldn't let him continue to say the TLM. Then he wrote a book against the new mass, one of the first on the topic, only 2 years after this blasphemy was forced on the laity across the globe.
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...This is a priest, as orthodox as they come, whom you won't listen to. Wow. I have no words...
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Instead you have made several factually erroneous statements regarding protestantism, have not provided evidence that most trad clergy used to hold said position, and have insulted everyone who disagrees with you.
If you would like to provide actual evidence, I am open to considering it.
I'm not going to write a history book to explain to you the common-knowledge of how Traditionalism started in the 60s and 70s. If you don't already know this, then you're woefully uneducated on the topic and shouldn't even be talking about it.
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Suffice it to say, from the period of 1969 (when the new mass came out) til the period of 1988 (when new-rome started the indult mass), there were almost no TLMs said in parishes or dioceses across the globe. Everything was the new mass. Except those Trad priests who had left new-rome and found Trad laity, where mass was said in garages, hotel rooms, basements and rental halls. Until they saved up $ to buy/rent buildings which were turned into chapels. This took years.
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So for the period of almost 20 years, the only TLMs said on the planet were by Trad priests. Not authorized by new-rome and not available in parishes/dioceses. There was no FSSP. No ICK. No Summorum Pontificuм. No indult TLMs. Sure, there were some old, retired priests who said the TLM in a small parish chapel a few times a week. But not on sundays. Sundays, it was new mass or nothing. This is historical fact.
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Get the picture?