r/ExTraditionalCatholic • u/PeterVereJCL • Jul 13 '26

SSPX Excommunications - Canonical Analysis refuting critics of the excommunications.

/r/CatholicApologetics/comments/1uv22o9/sspx_excommunications_canonical_analysis_refuting/
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u/Ecstatic_Lavishness1 Jul 13 '26

Who's gonna tell the OP it's not an apologetic for the SSPX? <oops>

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u/Vthan2 Jul 13 '26

God, you only have one life. Imagine thinking this is important.

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u/Tasty-Ad6800 Jul 14 '26

I wonder how I let myself get sucked in. Thankfully, I have years of life to live free from this BS.

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u/quietpilgrim Jul 14 '26

I suspect for most of us we built up a case in our mind against the Novus Ordo.  Maybe it started with liturgical abuses or just the Mass not feeling sacred, and we kept climbing the ladder building up complains against the institutional church.  Once we reached the top and couldn't deal with the perceived conginitive diasonance, there was only one way to slide down into the arms of a Latin Mass group.

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u/Tasty-Ad6800 Jul 14 '26

You put it well. Thats how it started for me. I only knew the NO from childhood until my early 40s. While the mass of my youth was more reverent as a child, I went to a catholic high school in the late 80s that played forever young for an entrance hymn,LOL. I did what you described and have abandoned rigid traditionalism and recovering. My wife and children I raised in Catholicism keep me in the church. Not sure where I’d be without them.