How can I confirm that a church offers a true Tridentine Latin Mass?

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j0876car said:
  • I received confession and communion here often. Did I commit a sin?
  • I offered mass intentions for the souls in purgatory, our blessed Mother, and priests. Are those masses valid?
  • I went to confession monthly here? Did my confessions count?
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Here is the kicker on confessions. The Pope has allowed the SSPX priests to hear confessions. Now whether this extends to other nondiocesan but valid priests is not clear. The intent was to give Catholics every opportunity to seek confession IMO.
 
ProVobis said:
Here is the kicker on confessions. The Pope has allowed the SSPX priests to hear confessions. Now whether this extends to other nondiocesan but valid priests is not clear.
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As far as I am aware, faculties were only granted to the SSPX. Independent non-sedevacantist priests (and, obviously, sedevacantist priests) did not receive faculties alongside the SSPX.
 
What about priests visiting another diocese? Prior to this papal ruling, faculties to hear confessions were only granted by the local bishop.
 
Iā€™m in agreement with the others above thinking your confessions may be in a dubious status; you should consult the priest of your regular Catholic parish for advice on what to do there. I didnā€™t think any group outside the Church had the authority to hear confessions except the SSPX by the Popeā€™s Year of Mercy decree.
 
midori said:
If you go to your diocesan website, they should have a list of all their parishes.
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My local RC diocese has a warning listing ā€œcatholicā€ churches that are not , as well.

It used to list some of the local EC, but not any more.
 
If your confession were dubious. you can take care of this by going to confession at a Catholic parish and repeating the sins you confessed there. Since you go to confession regularly anyways, of course, no problem.
 
Please speak to your Diocese regarding the place you are attending this Mass and receiving these sacraments.
 
In this contest, ā€œEastern Catholicā€.

(In most cases in the US and some other countries, we have our own bishops an hierarchies, due to past abuse by RC bishops of EC in their spiritual care.)
 
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dochawk said:
In this contest, ā€œEastern Catholicā€.

(In most cases in the US and some other countries, we have our own bishops an hierarchies, due to past abuse by RC bishops of EC in their spiritual care.)
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OK, I see. From my reading, it looked like you were saying the dioceses listed EC churches as among those the faithful were warned not to attend. I thought it might stand for ā€œEcumenical Catholicā€ or something like that, i.e., a liberal schismatic sect.

Strictly speaking, Eastern Rite churches are not part of the Latin Rite diocese, so there is no need to list them. As a practical matter, though, this is done as a convenience and a courtesy. It is certainly a good thing to remind Latin Rite faithful that the Eastern churches exist within their diocese, and that it would be good for them to consider assisting at Divine Liturgy.
 
HomeschoolDad said:
From my reading, it looked like you were saying the dioceses listed EC churches as among those the faithful were warned not to attend.
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Itā€™s been a few years since Iā€™ve heard of such a thing, but not a decade šŸ˜¦ There are still some RC priests in the US that ā€œwarnā€ their flocks that weā€™re not ā€œreally Catholicā€ šŸ¤ÆšŸ˜±šŸ¤Æ
HomeschoolDad said:
Strictly speaking, Eastern Rite churches are not part of the Latin Rite diocese,
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Oh, not even ā€œstrictlyā€ in most cases (but there are some left that are part of RC dioceses or ā€œdifferentā€ EC eparchiesā€“the greco-italo church in town, for example, is part of our Eparchy, and the other parish of that church is part of the NY RC diocese. Churches raised without their own US hierarchy generally become part of whatever diocese/eparchy helped)

And here, Fr. Francis Vivona of that Italo-greco church was the RC chancellor for quite some time, and founded two of their parishes as well as his own . . .
 
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