Gerard: But for simplicity's sake everything that Paul VI put into the Novus Ordo contained the substance of what is necessary for a valid consecration and sacrificial offering.
Would the Archbishop have said differently? Would Bp. Williamson say differently? For that matter, would Bp. Fellay contest the validity of a properly celebrated NO Mass, sans balloons, pancake-sized hosts and dancing girls? If so, then the past words of these clerics have given me, for one, an entirely erroneous impression. I have totally misunderstood them.
They are the people that have demonstrated to me that the Novus Ordo is not an issue of whether or not Paul VI had the power to do what he did, they concede he did. They don't argue about validity if done "by the books"
They argue as I do, the lack of traditional defenses of the Novus Ordo and the prudence of the post-Vatican II changes.
The people arguing against me are simply arguing against them.