It is precisely this non-Catholic attitude, condemned by today's gospel of the Pharisee and the Publican, that I despise.

I have no problem with others making the decision that for them and their family it may be a danger to the Faith to attend the SSPX and therefore to take the decision to make a clean break with the SSPX and sanctify the Sunday by praying at home when a Resistance priest is not available.

But those who find it necessary to call those of us in the Resistance who do not share their view, or rather, do not find it applicable to our situation, "compromisers" whom they would like to have nothing to do with, "leave us alone", should examine their consciences.

True Catholics should be overjoyed that any soul of good will would come into their midst. Did you despise Novus Ordo Catholics coming to the Traditional Mass when you were in the SSPX?

If you want to "preserve the Faith pure and undefiled", please tell me how I am endangering that by attending a Resistance Mass.

Archbishop Lefebvre gave us the principle which should govern our decision in this matter: we must not put our Faith in danger. In the early days of the Novus Ordo he even permitted his seminarians to attend the New Mass on their vacations and "didn't dare" tell the faithful not to attend Mass on Sundays. His attitude - not his principles - changed with time as it became clear beyond a doubt what a grave danger to the Faith the NOM represented. Can that be said of SSPX Masses, and in all circuмstances? It is in fact arguable that it can be said of your opinion that one should avoid the SSPX like the plague. For many Resistance Catholics (if you will allow us to consider ourselves such) this would mean almost never attending Sunday Mass. In spite of all the possible ways of addressing this situation, such as those suggested by Fr Pivert, in practice it nonetheless results in many souls losing the Faith or at least drifting away. There is more than one way to put your Faith in danger.

 An attitude of humility, like the Publican's, is what we all need. Do what you need to do to keep the Faith. Consult a priest you trust. Be careful pontificating on what others should do, even if you are a priest, just as Bishop Williamson had the prudence to do. We are in a crisis, it's not always that simple.

Quote from: Seraphina 2025-08-17, 4:03:06 PM
I want to go to Heaven. I want the Faith. It doesn’t matter to me what the actual people call themselves, Resistance, Fake Resistance, Catholic Faith of Tradition, R & R, Sedevacantist, Sedeprivationists, and so forth.
Yes, I AM a woman; one who’d like nothing more than to have a chapel where I could go every Sunday and never concern myself with whether the priest is real, the Sacraments are valid and licit, there’s a Godly bishop proclaiming the Faith in public and rebuking civil authorities when necessary, when there is a Pope in Rome who proclaims the unadulterated Catholic Faith to the world. Barring this, it’d be great to have a husband, children, extended family and Catholic friends with which I’m surrounded. God has apparently willed I have none of these. I do the best I can, solo. As to Mass, Sacraments, and priest, I take what little I can get when it presents itself. If an SSPX priest, ordained by Bp. W. is willing drive to hear my Confession and give Communion, I’m availing myself of the opportunity. Whatever his sins of affiliation with this bishop or that, leaning towards Sede or not, membership in a priestly fraternity, be it SSPX, SSPV, CMRI, or whatever, these are not matters of Faith or morals. If he’s a notorious public sinner, then no, I don’t want him. If such is not the case, he takes the “wrong” stand on clerical matters, matters upon which I am unqualified to judge and about which many holy priests, religious, and bishops cannot agree, I am not guilty of whatever errors he may turn out to hold. If the form, matter, and intention are correct, and he is willing to assist me, I’d be a fool to refuse.

Quote from: Seraphina 2025-08-17, 5:51:27 PM
Benedikt, are you male or female? Married? Have Catholic family and friends? How many years have you gone without any Mass, Sacraments, or priest, and with no social support other than unknown people online? Can you travel? Move? Because I cannot do either any longer. I’ve neither the money nor the health.
Let me guess, you’re a disciple of Fr. Hewko?

This is spiritually worse than Japan. Back then, the faithful had no priests or sacraments, yet never wavered. Today, Catholics have Mass and the sacraments but often choose comfort and compromise 

Quote from: Plenus Venter 2025-08-17, 9:56:26 PMQuote from: Plenus Venter 2025-08-17, 9:56:26 PM
When Resistance Catholics attending SSPX Masses become indifferent and like the 'frog in boiling water', we should likewise ask what the root cause of that is. It's not because they are attending the Traditional Mass and frequenting the sacraments and hearing the almost exclusively edifying sermons (that is still the rule in the SSPX, perhaps not in Germany?). No, it is for the reason you cite for your cause: they lack catechism and zeal... and they have not understood the crisis.

Fr Pivert answers the question "And what do you think are the biggest errors of the society of St. Pius X?" with this succinct response: "The silence. And that's what it is very difficult to understand, because silence is not an error. It is not a fighting error. It's an easier way to fall in error when you do not know it.". Now whether you resist the slide of the SSPX by continuing to attend and voicing your concerns, or by staying at home and depriving yourself of the sacraments, the same void exists, the same silence - unless you actively take measures to educate yourself about the crisis. And this is the answer to this problem, understanding the battle we are in. You can just as well go off the rails with any other Resistance priest as you can with the SSPX. Just look at what has transpired already in the Resistance in less than 15 years... 

It is a grave sin to not fulfill your Sunday obligation. It requires a proportionate reason not to do so. Be careful trying to bind consciences. Catholic Tradition does not need more popes making dogmas where they do not exist. Prudential decisions change with circuмstances. Leave it to directors of souls.

Quote from: Seraphina 2025-08-18, 8:12:36 AM
Who claims to be “part of the resistance?” And what IS the Resistance, exactly? People claiming the label don’t agree with each other, often to the point of despising one another.
It is clearly not an organization in the sense of having a leader, a chain of command, or even a membership list.
So far as I can see, the resistance is a very loosely affiliated random assortment of bishops, priests, laity whose only common link is having somehow once been connected to the SSPX until 2012 and later.
Today there are cults of personality, cults of slightly tighter organizations that at least have names, and individual laity who’ve attached themselves in some way to a person or a group, but who come and go. It’s like an amoeba, a blob that slides, expands and contracts, changes shape and depth, divides and reabsorbs pieces at random.
Bp. W. declined to lead this “resistance” foreseeing this in advance.
He analogized it to “herding cats.” 
I think of it as attempting to pick up a raw egg from a marble countertop.
It doesn’t work.
The Church has not failed for that is impossible.
What has failed is the human at the head and most of his subordinates on down.
Without Catholic leadership, the whole Body suffers.
Until there is a Catholic Pope who acts like a Catholic Pope on the Chair of Peter,
things will not work.
When those calling themselves Traditional Catholics backbite and devour one another, the prudent person neither bites nor allows himself to be devoured.
That is why I have no problem being told, “You aren’t part of the Resistance.”
I’m also not novus ordo, indult, motu, FSSP, SSPX, or whatever.
I consider myself the dog beside the Master’s table, eating up whatever morsels of food fall my way. 🐕