04-15-2025, 06:26 AM
The Catacombs is gratefully sharing The Catholic Trumpet's revisiting and summarizing of Sean Johnson's Catalog of Compromise, Change, and Contradiction in the SSPX, first written in 2019:
The Catholic Trumpet [slightly reformatted] | April 9, 2025
Editor's Note: We will be posting one compromise at a time from Sean Johnson’s “Catalog of Compromise, Change, and Contradiction in the SSPX.” Though Mr. Johnson tragically continues to attend the conciliar-SSPX and defends Bishop Williamson’s scandalous position on grace in the New Mass, this does not nullify the objective facts he has documented. Truth stands on its own. And when a man who refuses to act on the truth still manages to compile a devastating record of betrayal—what excuse will you and I have if we ignore it? May these posts stir souls not to idle curiosity, but to clarity, conviction, and Catholic action. ‘Let your yes be yes, and your no be no.
All the SSPX faithful should be well familiar with the little blue book, Christian Warfare, published by
the SSPX and promoted and used on their Ignatian retreats. In the section on the Examination of
Conscience, under the third commandment (page 289 in the 2006 edition) we find the following:
Have you attended and actively participated in the "New Mass"? Have you received Holy Communion in the hand?
Yet, in the new edition, this sentence was replaced with:
Have you received Holy Communion in the hand knowing that it leads to Sacrilege and loss of faith in the
Real Presence?
Have you attended and actively participated in non-Catholic religious services?
https://tradcatresist.blogspot.com/2018/...d-his.html
Clearly the SSPX no longer wishes to suggest attending the Novus Ordo is sinful.
Catalog of SSPX Compromise #1: New Mass – Sinful or Not?
The Catholic Trumpet [slightly reformatted] | April 9, 2025
Editor's Note: We will be posting one compromise at a time from Sean Johnson’s “Catalog of Compromise, Change, and Contradiction in the SSPX.” Though Mr. Johnson tragically continues to attend the conciliar-SSPX and defends Bishop Williamson’s scandalous position on grace in the New Mass, this does not nullify the objective facts he has documented. Truth stands on its own. And when a man who refuses to act on the truth still manages to compile a devastating record of betrayal—what excuse will you and I have if we ignore it? May these posts stir souls not to idle curiosity, but to clarity, conviction, and Catholic action. ‘Let your yes be yes, and your no be no.
#1: Change (New Mass Participation Sinful or Not?)
All the SSPX faithful should be well familiar with the little blue book, Christian Warfare, published by
the SSPX and promoted and used on their Ignatian retreats. In the section on the Examination of
Conscience, under the third commandment (page 289 in the 2006 edition) we find the following:
Have you attended and actively participated in the "New Mass"? Have you received Holy Communion in the hand?
Yet, in the new edition, this sentence was replaced with:
Have you received Holy Communion in the hand knowing that it leads to Sacrilege and loss of faith in the
Real Presence?
Have you attended and actively participated in non-Catholic religious services?
https://tradcatresist.blogspot.com/2018/...d-his.html
Clearly the SSPX no longer wishes to suggest attending the Novus Ordo is sinful.
"So let us be confident, let us not be unprepared, let us not be outflanked, let us be wise, vigilant, fighting against those who are trying to tear the faith out of our souls and morality out of our hearts, so that we may remain Catholics, remain united to the Blessed Virgin Mary, remain united to the Roman Catholic Church, remain faithful children of the Church."- Abp. Lefebvre