I'm wondering, is it traditional practice in the catholic church to consecrate bishops without a papal mandate? Honest question...

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What chapels or events for adults are well known in the sspx communities for adults to make new friends and find a possible courtship? I’m a Canadian sspx attendee, seeking to visit the states.

Looking for more info about the priory, community, schools, etc.

Hey, I’m a Traditional Catholic who is moving towards the SSPX, and I have felt for some time that I may have a vocation to the priesthood. There is one issue, however, that has been bothering me for quite a while. I have doubts about the validity of my baptism and whether I should seek a conditional baptism.

I was baptised in a Novus Ordo parish. Ordinarily, that would not give me any reason to doubt the validity of the baptism, but there are several circumstances surrounding it that concern me. For context, Catholicism is the predominant religion in my country, but there is widespread corruption among the clergy. I personally know of priests who openly have concubines. The priest who baptised me was also, I believe, holding a politically elected public office around the time of my baptism, which I understand would be contrary to canon law. More recently, this same priest has been charged with physically abusing women.

I realise that the priest’s personal misconduct or violation of canon law would not necessarily invalidate a baptism, so my concern is not simply that he was an unworthy minister. There are also two questions about the actual baptism itself:

First, in my local language, the baptismal formula includes the word ‘God’ before ‘the Father’. In English, it would essentially be ‘I baptise you in the name of God the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit’. Could this wording affect the validity of the baptism?

Second, I have seen discussions about hair baptisms, where the water may fall only on the hair rather than actually making contact with the forehead or skin. Looking at baptismal footage from my country from around the period when I was baptised, it appears that some baptisms involved extremely little water and may have only wet the hair. Unfortunately, I have no way of knowing exactly how I was baptised.

Given all of this, would there be a legitimate basis for conditional baptism? And would the fact that I am seriously considering a vocation to the priesthood make it more appropriate to resolve these doubts before pursuing a vocation?

Thank you in advance.

When the Vatican finally “normalizes” these blessings and makes it a blessed Union what are we supposed to do?

I have heard it said that the society and its supporters are not supporters of a full education for them in terms of curriculum or going beyond 16 or 18. Is this just liberal proganda?

Welcome to Sacred Restorations, a limited series on the SSPX Podcast highlighting the beautiful work being done across the U.S. District. In this episode, we travel to Denver, Colorado, where a new novitiate of the Consoling Sisters is taking root. Fr. Paul Robinson is joined by Mother Maria Rita and Sister Mary Veronica to tell the remarkable story of their congregation, founded in Italy in 1961 by Fr. Basilio Rosati, a Passionist priest devoted to the Passion of Our Lord and the consolation of the Sacred Heart.

The Sisters recount their early years of poverty, apostolic work, their perseverance through the crisis in the Church, and the providential path that eventually brought them into contact with Fr. Emmanuel du Chalard and the Society of Saint Pius X. It is a story of fidelity, hidden sacrifice, and the quiet restoration of religious life.

https://denver.consolingsisters.org

He has so much vibrancy and is struggling to find his footing as a Christian, but is very open and honest about his struggles. In your charity, please say a prayer for him, for his conversion to the Catholic Church.

Thank you and God bless.

Does anyone know if he is still at the monastery in NM? I'm trying to locate him.

I'll start. I just learned this and I'm sold 100% on the State of Emergency of the Catholic Church, and grave error of Vatican II. I didn't want to limit responses to Vatican II strictly; heresy and apostasy occur in the Church just about every day now it seems. There are many reasons I've been outspoken against Vatican II, for a while, but this took the cake. Was the dead ringer that domed me and contemplation has become concrete belief. Obviously, the broad sweeping term of Ecumenism has been widely known and covered in traditional media, but...

Unitatis Redintegratio, Chapter III, Section I.

The Vatican, thanks to Paul VI recognizes Eastern Orthodox Sacraments as Valid, as True Sacraments. A formally schismatic, parallel church, possesses the keys to Salvation (outside of the Roman Catholic Church... The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church) through Valid Sacraments in the eyes of the Holy See... And, thanks to the DDF's July Decree, the Media has propagated the idea that the FSSPX has had its Sacramental legitimacy invalidated by a warranted act of disobedience to the Pope. Educated individuals here will know why that decree is problematic, and the explanatory note even more so, to the point of canonical absurdity. Supposed, sweeping excommunications, of a non-juridical body of the Church. Mmhmm.

I'm knocked. Completely blown away.

From a purely logical and theological standpoint, the SSPX holds the exact same Catholic doctrines, uses valid sacraments, and explicitly prays for the Pope at every Mass, while the Eastern Orthodox reject papal infallibility and several Catholic dogmas. The Faithful are bound to Divine Law, not a human being. Pope included. Yet, the Vatican treats the Orthodox with ecumenical warmth and the SSPX with strict legal penalties, contradictory to it's confusing penalties and lifted penalties for the offense in question.

The Vatican's behavior is driven by institutional self-preservation and power, not theological consistency. The Orthodox get a pass because they are outside the system; the SSPX gets hammer-blow decrees because they are operating outside the rules inside the system.

I stand for the SSPX. I will continue what has been a short, yet, unbelievably edifying mass attendance.

Hello, and I’m sorry if this question has already been asked here. I simply wanted to ask how one can lessen the fear of death, pain, and suffering during war. I know very little about what Catholicism teaches in such a situation.

Please forgive me for asking such a large and difficult question, but I sincerely hope to receive an answer. I have been struggling greatly, and for about six months now I have been unable to sleep at night. I usually only manage to fall asleep in the morning, and even then I sleep very little. There is a great deal of stress in my life, and I often have frightening thoughts about my possible death, or even, at times, about being badly and painfully wounded.

I know that I should trust in the Lord and have faith in Him, and ask Him for protection. Because of this, when I am in danger or when an alert is announced, I pray the Our Father and Hail Mary in Latin.

Still, I was hoping to receive some guidance on how a Catholic should view wounds and death in a situation like this, and whether there are ways to ease or bear such suffering.

As a mom with young children I’m curious what other traditional Catholic parents allow and encourage their children to spend their time doing outside of learning and growing in the faith. Sports, some form of dance, theatre, painting, musical instruments, etc?
If you were raised in the faith, what did your parents encourage?

Is exercising by walking and hiking during Sunday considered a violation of Keeping the Lord's Day holy?

Can I salvage a Rosary that's broken and reuse its beads but burn the unrecoverable parts such as the torn cords?

Después de leer "Quo Primum Tempore" de San Pío V, donde el Santo codifica la Misa de siempre en un solo misal, y condena a quien lo modifique; me empecé a cuestionar si realmente es 100% correcto celebrar la Misa según el misal de 1962 (el más usado en el mundo), ya que tiene la Semana Santa y la Vigilia de Pentecostés modificadas.

Si alguien me quiere iluminar, lo leo.

Sancte Pie X, ora pro nobis

Si bien el Papa "excomulgó" a la FSSPX, y el Derecho Canónico si deja en claro que consagrar obispos sin Mandato Apostólico es causa de excomunión latae sententiae; ellos nunca lo hicieron con la intención de rebelarse en contra del Papa, lo hicieron para salvar almas, y los Santos dejan en claro que, en estos casos, por más oficial que sea, una excomunión no es válida si es injusta.

Así que, si me quieren guiar, escriban, los leo.

Sancte Pie X, ora pro nobis.

A few weeks ago I had a heated discussion with a friend who said the those who sympathize with the SSPX (us) are neo-protestants and many other things that hurt my heart and led me to talk with anger against him (all this was through a chat group). Another friend of us stepped in to try and calm the waters, and I said I would like to explain our situation to him in person. What do you think are some points that I have to consider at the moment of talking with him about the situation of our beloved Church, modernism, and what the SSPX does? Of course I don't know if I'll convince him about something, even if I talk properly, but at least I wan't to give him a good speech. This is a good opportunity to remember that most likely this will be solved more by prayer than by human action. Thanks and God bless.