Wow, where to begin unraveling this?
It's clear from the +Lefebvre quote that AT THE TIME he was considering the NOM to be EXTRINSICALLY evil, evil because of the harm it does to the faith. That was his reasoning at the time of making those quotations. At different times over the years, he became more hard line on the NOM.
Wow, where to begin unraveling this?
The issue of intrinsic vs extrinsic evil is not germain to Lefebvre’s quote (except very indirectly); he is not discussed that point.
He is explicitly referring to the hardliners who say nobody should EVER attend a conservative NOM, and disagreeing with them, and explicitly mentioning as an exception those who would lose the faith if they could not attend Mass for a prolonged period of time (textbook example of grave spiritual necessity).
That his position later hardened is acknowledged by all, but he never ever hardened to the point of reversing or recanting this exception (not could he, without sinning, and taking upon his own conscience those who would have been damned for having lost the faith in an attempt to abide by such an idiotic and uncatholic rule).
Not even the 1981 pledge of fidelity (by which all SSPX priests promised never to positively advise someone to attend the new Mass”) precludes this, since necessity is a cause excusing from the law.
The Pfeifferian/Hewkonian/LaRosan error has made a caricature of Lefebvre’s position.
Note to Pax: If you are now backing away from your initial claim that the NOM is intrinsically evil in the moral sense (which is good to see), then you are simultaneously and unavoidably compelled to acknowledge there can be circuмstances which make that attendance permissible, since it is only intrinsically evil moral acts which allow for no exceptions.