Are all priests of the SSPX validly ordained?

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Are the priests of the Society of Saint Pius X validly ordained and truly have received the Sacrament of Orders?

Are their Masses valid ie, Transubstantiation has taken place?
 
a83192 said:
Are the priests of the Society of Saint Pius X validly ordained and truly have received the Sacrament of Orders?

Are their Masses valid ie, Transubstantiation has taken place?
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Yes to both questions.

Their situation is quite complex and cannot in any coherent way be described or explained in a short internet answer.
 
a83192 said:
Are the priests of the Society of Saint Pius X validly ordained and truly have received the Sacrament of Orders?

Are their Masses valid ie, Transubstantiation has taken place?
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As Mike30 says the situation is complicated.

For example, the faculty of SSPX priests to hear Confession is suspended so any absolution given to a penitent by an SSPX priest is invalid.
Likewise their faculty to assist at marriage is suspended.
 
thistle said:
As Mike30 says the situation is complicated.

For example, the faculty of SSPX priests to hear Confession is suspended so any absolution given to a penitent by an SSPX priest is invalid.
Likewise their faculty to assist at marriage is suspended.
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With the usual exception of danger of death, I believe, for the confessions.
 
thistle said:
As Mike30 says the situation is complicated.

For example, the faculty of SSPX priests to hear Confession is suspended so any absolution given to a penitent by an SSPX priest is invalid.
Likewise their faculty to assist at marriage is suspended.
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Just to add a little. Marriage and Penance are rightly given only to the Ordinary in his Diocese. He then, usually, grants these faculties to those priests who are incardinated into his diocese. Since the SSPX priests are not incardinated into a diocese, they have no supplied faculties so they do not validly exercise these sacraments, with the one exception being Penance in the case of a dying person in which case faculties are supplied by Canon law.

The Masses said by the SSPX are VALID, but illegal. Meaning they truly confect the Eucharist, but their act of saying Mass is against the law.
 
moon1234 said:
Just to add a little. Marriage and Penance are rightly given only to the Ordinary in his Diocese. He then, usually, grants these faculties to those priests who are incardinated into his diocese. Since the SSPX priests are not incardinated into a diocese, they have no supplied faculties so they do not validly exercise these sacraments, with the one exception being Penance in the case of a dying person in which case faculties are supplied by Canon law.

The Masses said by the SSPX are VALID, but illegal. Meaning they truly confect the Eucharist, but their act of saying Mass is against the law.
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Thanks for the answers
 
though you should not attend any events of the SSPX the following shows what is valid and what is not:

Baptism: Valid - Licit
Confirmation: Valid - Dubiously licit (I verge on saying illicit myself)
Mass: Valid - Illicit
Confession to one not in danger of death: Invalid-Illicit
Confession to one in danger of death: Valid-Licit
Matrimony: Invalid-Illicit
Holy Orders (Deacon/Priest) Valid-Licit (if they obey the relevant law)
Holy Orders (Bishop) Valid - Illicit
 
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