https://smac.edu/sites/sspx/files/media/bulletin_06_02_2019.pdf

I have seen announcements before requesting people to fill out census card, but this is the first time I have ever seen a note that Canon law requires" it. Does anyone know if other SSPX chapels have the same note about Canon law?

"ASSUMPTION CHAPEL  INFORMATION FORMS
 Canon Law requires pastors  to keep a parish census book.  All attending Mass or receiving  sacraments at Assumption Chapel are requested to complete the Information Form available in the vestibule and at the switchboard.  This includes those 18 and above even if still living at home. "
 

Furthermore, no SSPX chapel is a cononically erected "parish" and the priests of the parish aren't pastors appointed by the diocesan bishop.

Excellent. I’m glad I’m not the only one who hates using those terms when describing a traditional chapel. 

Bishop Williamson said that SSPX has "supplied jurisdiction".  They have always had
"supplied jurisdiction".  He said that SSPX has no power to keep people as members
of their chapels.  People are free to come and go as they please.  And, if nobody goes
to an SSPX chapel, they lose jurisdiction.  

So, the question is ...

HOW DID SSPX in Saint Marys GET THE AUTHORITY TO DEMAND PEOPLE FILL OUT
A CENSUS CARD ??

Logical conclusion: SSPX has an agreement with Rome and keeps it secret OR they
are lying about having the authority to demand census cards be filled out.

Either way, I'm not filling one out.

I think this is just a way for the new-sspx to keep a tally on how many attend their chapels.  So +Fellay can brag about how big their society is.  And to also see if they are losing members.  Maybe to calculate $ contributions per family.  +Fellay runs the new-sspx like a corporation, just like new-rome runs the conciliar Church.  You gotta have metrics to showcase at the next annual business meeting (er...I mean, annual chapter meeting).

Bishop Williamson said that SSPX has "supplied jurisdiction". [....]  He said that SSPX has no power to keep people as members of their chapels. [....]  Logical conclusion: SSPX has an agreement with Rome and keeps it secret OR they are lying about having the authority to demand census cards be filled out.

Being an outsider, I can't claim any, um, sensus SSPXus, but couldn't this "census" be more readily explained as an attempt to bluff attendees of SSPX Masses and recipients of SSPX sacraments into providing docuмents that can be used as a basis for follow-on, ummm, "requests" for donations?

Some Novus Ordo parishes seem to have abandoned all subtlety, e.g., annually supplying parishoners-of-record with preaddressed envelopes bearing individually-identifying bar-codes [‡], to be used for regularly mailing donations to their parish.  I believe that I've even seen mention of a concept of being behind schedule on contributions, but perhaps that was in the context of tuition for a parochial school.

There is a fundamental prohibition in Canon Law on any quid pro quo in which a donation is treated by clergy as a requirement for reception of the sacraments [†].  How close the modernized process approaches a violation of Canon Law is an issue that I'll leave to be debated by CathIinfo members who are more familiar with Canon Law than I am.[*]

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Note *: 1917/1918 C.I.C. compilation of Pius "SSPX" X via Benedict XV, please.

Note ‡: Some privacy could be maintained for parishoners if there were no human-readable return addresses on those envelopes.  But placing cash into a traditional long-handled collection basket preserves privacy even more effectively, and doesn't depend on parish employees or volunteers meticulously following a parish's privacy rules.

Note †: I assume that this was a reform at the Council of Trent that was motivated by the "indulgences" scandal that fueled early antiCatholic preaching during the Protestant-Revolt.

Next step:  You get an ID card in the mail with a computer chip in it,
which you have to scan at the chapel door to be admitted for Mass,
baptism, confession, etc.

And, of course, you cannot be buried in the cemetery without an ID card.
Fr. Rutledge was reluctant to have a funeral Mass for a guy who was in
the Resistance.  

When you die will you need an ID card to get into Heaven?

Someone told me that an elderly lady died in St. Marys that belonged to the Resistance had purchased a plot long before she died and she wanted to have a Resistance priest bury her there but Fr.Rutledge would not allow it so she had to be buried in a different cemetery.  I would think this is illegal.  If she owned the plot then she would have an easement to get there legally.