1. The debate around the new mass being legitimate did not start in 2012. I’m sorry, people didn’t suddenly accept new-Rome's lies in 2012. I get that the 2012 Docuмent is a big problem, but you’re ignoring the 40 years prior to this. And you’re ignoring the “Benedict motu” effect which started in 2005.
2. How old were you in 2005? “Oh, Pope Benedict freed the Latin mass!” This was the sentimental garbage going around everywhere.
3. I seriously doubt most sspx have even read the 2012 docuмent. You’re giving it much too much importance. As far as laity.
4. It may have had more of an effect on the priests in the sspx, since they had to vote on it. That, I’ll grant.
5. But most people haven’t read that docuмent. If they left Tradition, they did so because of the media propaganda which kept yelling that Benedict was bringing back Tradition.
1. Beliefs, right or wrong don’t arise from a vacuum.
2. I was 49 in 2005. From the age of 18, I was seriously seeking Truth. God led me at last to Tradition. I wasn’t operating on sentiment. Not at all. I’d had my share of that in every brand of Protestantism I could find, and by 2005, I was done looking at Protestants.
3. I’d guesstimate a third of the lay people took a copy. How many sat down and read it thoroughly and thoughtfully? Maybe 1/3 of those.
4. Agree. The priests had to read it.
5. I read it, carefully and thoughtfully. I did not agree with significant parts of it because it was ambiguous as to exactly what Bp. Fellay was saying. I personally never heard media (Which media? Names please!) saying that Pope Benedict was “bringing back tradition!)
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