May Catholics attend SSPX masses?

[Aquinas11]

Right. This has nothing to do w being in full communion with Church and everything to do with upholding of Catholic Tradition

 

[thistle]

Thistle, I respect your right to have an opinion on this. I disagree with you and others like you on this board who conflate a very complex situation, which is being dealt with on many levels from the Pope to the local Bishops, down to a blanket statement which was a press release from 1988. You are “behind the times” on this as the Holy Father has granted to SSPX priests and those who assist at Mass at an SSPX chapel, Papal jurisdiction to hear Confessions and to perform the Sacrament of Matrimony (which almost always involves a Nuptial Mass). And, as you know, there is no priest or Bishop in the SSPX who is currently excommunicated.

Having some faculties suspended and others granted with permission of the local bishop being required has nothing to do with excommunication.
Nobody here has said the priests are excommunicated.

 

[giuseppeTO]

Agreed. The excommunication comment was for a different post. Is there any other explanation for the granting of Confessions, Marriages, ‘nihil obstat’ to priestly ordinations than the Pope’s desire to continue to nuture the faithful attached to the SSPX in this apostolate? Or do you see another possible goal?

 

[commenter]

Is there any other explanation for the granting of Confessions, Marriages, ‘nihil obstat’ to priestly ordinations than the Pope’s desire to continue to nuture the faithful attached to the SSPX in this apostolate?

When I was a child, parishes ignored, or criticized, Catholics who sent children to public school. Today, even parishes that have a parochial school give attention and congratulations to their CCD students, and may mention in the parish bulletin a student or teacher who got an award from the public school.

But because a pastor reaches out to people already in that irregular situation doesn’t mean public school is an equally prudent choice with Catholic school for a child starting school, or even to remain in public school. We love you wherever you are, but consider transfer to parochial.

Pope Francis also urges pastors to reach out to the woman already in an irregular living relationship. That pastoral outreach to someone in a less prudent situation does not mean all situations are equally prudent to remain in, or that we shouldn’t try to dissuade her younger sister from starting that.

 

[giuseppeTO]

In past decades, parishes who criticized public school education for Catholics were following the examples of previous Popes like Pius X and Pius XI who took issue with Catholic parents who sent their children to public school. Some Bishops went so far as to call it mortally sinful.

Your example involves very superficial acts of giving attention and do not appear to attain the gravity of providing papal jurisdiction and faculties to licitly administer sacraments.