things are just getting clearer and clearer!
Thanks so much
still don't know what a feenyite is but that's OK
don't know if the NO Mass is valid but that's OK
guess I don't need to know... and neither does anyone else who might come here
I'll be more than happy to explain these things to you. First, a Feeneyite is someone who followed the errors of Father Leonard Feeney, a Jesuit Priest [1897-1978] who claimed that "without water baptism, there is absolutely no salvation."
Also, the NO Mass is valid if you believe that Pope Paul VI was a true pope. That's because as Pope, he (along with many other Popes before him) continuously violated #5 of Quo Primum (and that's okay because it is not dogmatic).
What does #5 of Quo Primum say? Here it is:
"by this present Constitution, which will be valid henceforth, now, and forever, We order and enjoin that nothing must be added to Our recently published Missal, nothing omitted from it, nor anything whatsoever be changed within it under the penalty of Our displeasure."
Pope Paul VI arguably violated #5 of Quo Primum more than any other Pope since 1570 when he created the NO Mass. However, the NO Mass (even though it's barely Catholic and the Latin Mass is a billion times better because of this) is still valid and licit because it:
a.) has a valid consecration of the host (transubstantiation takes place because the words in Luke 22:19 are said to make it valid); and
b.) to deny the validity and licitness of the NO Mass would be violating an important canon law (which all Catholics must obey) and that law is the following:
Canon 7 of Chapter 9 in Session 22 of The Council of Trent –"If any one saith, that the ceremonies, vestments, and outward signs, which the Catholic Church makes use of in the celebration of masses, are incentives to impiety, rather than offices of piety; let him be anathema." (Denzinger 954)
I hope that this helped you.