A few days ago, it was reported that the SSPX had sold its church in Syracuse, NY in order to use the local conciliar church, and that the old SSPX church had subsequently become a mosque:
https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/beware-st-mary's-kansas/Now Non Possumus is reporting that the SSPX has sold St. Michael's Church in Erie, PA, and that it has fallen into the hands of a Protestant sect:
http://nonpossumus-vcr.blogspot.com/2019/08/la-iglesia-st-michaels-de-la-fsspx-en.htmlI have some questions (which are not accusations):
1) According to the old CIC, it is only a diocesan bishop who can reduce a consecrated church to profane use. Were these churches ever consecrated?
2) If so, did the local diocesan bishops involved reduce these buildings to profane use? The local bishops would obviously be aware, since the SSPX is now using diocesan churches for its Masses (What a great way to ease the people into the conciliar church...literally!).
3) How many more SSPX churches will be shed in order to use conciliar facilities?
4) What were the local reactions of SSPX faithful (or were the labotomized zombies numb to conciliarization)?
5) What was the sales pitch to the people in Erie and Syracuse to justify the move to diocesan churches?
When the SSPX was traditional (at least outwardly so), roughly until 2007-2009 (+/-), nobody would have objected to using conciliar churches for Mass, because it was viewed more as a conquest than compromise: We have true priests saying the true Mass in a church that was built for it. It was a victory.
But now, with the ralliement added into the historical context, and the aim of SSPX integration -no longer conversion of an occupying enemy!- in view, such is no longer the case: It is the SSPX which is being converted, and that is the reason for the changed perception of Masses in conciliar buildings:
We know the SSPX is not trying to convert the modernists (did not Fr. Pagliarani announce it was no longer necessary for Rome to convert in order to strike a deal?!), while the modernists are being quite successful in converting the SSPX: "What matters most is that there no longer be rejection in their hearts..." (Fr. Cottier regarding Campos).
And in fact, if one reads the scalding rebuttal of the young SSPX man married in a diocesan church in Canada found in the Remnant comments section, he rebukes the old SSPXers, and declares the new generation of SSPXers do not suffer from the combat mentality of the previous generation; they are no longer "embittered."
Recall that in the 6 conditions (later reduced to only 1, which has already been ceded), the SSPX was willing to surrender to the local bishops permission to build church properties. Their consent was necessary. If the justification for abandoning these churches and moving into conciliar abodes was that these SSPX churches were in disrepair, and would cost too much to fix (similar to the lies regarding the seminary in Winona being unfit), did the diocesan bishops block the building of new chapels, with the SSPX knuckling under them?
Or did the SSPX willingly move into the conciliar buildings simply because the diocesan bishops invited them to abandon their old churches (which were still perfectly fit for worship, as their new tenants evince!!), and the Society wants to show how "approved" and "united" they are with the local heretics?