So if marriages, which the spouses confer upon one another, are now considered invalid if done without a local Bishop’s approval, what of Confessions, Confirmations, Baptisms? How can a person possibly recall ALL of his sins before 2015 in order to reconfess them? What of all those now useless Confirmations and God-forbid, sacrilegious communions? All the people who find themselves bastards, irreparably if their parents are no longer living to correct their vows? What about those who died having been given false rites by men who weren’t priests because the bishop who ordained them, if not Archbishop Lefebvre, was not a real bishop?
I know of several people, despite leading upstanding Catholic lives, were born, lived, and buried under the ministrations of the SSPX. Does the NewSociety say they are all burning in Hell if they ever committed one mortal sin and lacked perfect Contrition? It would have been better for them that they had never been born.
If the Society now says this, they should shut themselves down, laicize all the religious, and hand over everything they own to Rome, IMMEDIATELY!
As for the tens of thousands of ruined souls, if not already in Hell, they may as live it up while still on earth as the New Church won’t help them get back into a state of Grace. I’m not sure the average millennial in the novus ordo is even familiar with that phrase, “state of Grace.”
It indeed appears that the Society wants to drive away all who wish to save their souls. Fr. Pagliarini should rename the Society after Esau, willing to sell his soul for a bowl of pottage.
And where should the few souls go who refuse to listen to the advice of Job’s wife, “Curse God and die.” The large majority of the world have nowhere to turn and no one to give them the Faith, the Mass, the Sacraments.
Sorry, but I always become sad on Sunday.
