I am a sede. I have to mention this because unlike the SSPX, I do not recognize the new form of cannon law that was written by antipope John Paul II in 1983.
With that said, basically all my former friends/family are either novus ordo, heretics, or agnostics. I still maintain relations with these people, enjoying their company within limits with also the hopes of one day helping them discover the one true faith. Is it apostasy to hang out with heretical protestant friends and watch a football game while drinking a beer, while occasionally bringing up things like Vatican II, latin mass, Fatima, etc....?
I am in my early 20s and some of my "friends" who I have know since my public school days will be getting married.
Before Vatican II, what were the laws on the books regarding catholics attending non-catholic weddings and funerals? Protestant weddings? Civil weddings? Novus Ordo weddings?
I also have a protestant friend who wants me to be godfather to his first child. Is this acceptable?
I have a cousin who is getting married next year. Both he and his fiance were baptized NO. they have been living together for quite some time. Now they want a civil wedding. Am I required by the 1917 cannon law not to go?
I once emailed MHFM and either Br. Peter or Michael Dimond told me I must never attend a NO service. Not for any reason, including my grandmother's funeral. Do you people agree with this? Even though the NO is a masonic abomination, I would still like to go to my grandmothers funeral just out of respect for her. For the record both my grandmothers are still living, I am just speaking in the hypothetical. I will try to re-introduce them to tradition, but I am afraid I may fail because they are so attached to the bogus ordo saturday night mass in their jeans. They've been doing it for decades and I'm afraid it might be too late. Both my grandfathers were also serious bogus ordo catholics, but for some reason they got cremated. I am trying to convince my grandmothers that cremation is never acceptable.
Help from people who have gone through this???