Why can't we still not go to SSPX chapels?

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The Vatican has said it is permissible to financially contribute to the Society of St. Pius X and also that attending Mass at an SSPX chapel fulfills the Sunday obligation (and this was before the lifting of the excommunications). Now that the “excommunications” were lifted, and the SSPX has not changed their disagreements with Vatican II, why would anyone say a Catholic should not attend Mass at an SSPX chapel?
 
Because the SSPX is still not fully reconciled to the Church. The Holy Father’s decision to lift the excommunications (which was a true lifting of true excommunications, and so the word excommunications should not be qualified with scare quotes) was a necessary first step, but the work toward reconciliation must continue as Pope Benedict XVI indicated when he recently said:
I fulfilled this act of fatherly mercy because those [episcopal] prelates [of the SSPX, the bishops in question] repeatedly manifested to me their deep suffering for the situation in which they found themselves [of being excommunicated]. I hope that this gesture of mine will be followed by the solicitous effort by them to accomplish the ulterior steps necessary to accomplish full communion with the Church, thus testifying true fidelity and true recognition of the magisterium and of the authority of the pope and of the Second Vatican Council (source, emphasis added).
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It should also be said that “the Vatican” did not give permission for financial contributions to the SSPX or for attendance at an SSPX Mass to satisfy the Sunday/holy day obligation. Those statements were made by Msgr. Camille Perl of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei. The documents (click here and click here) represent the educated and expert opinion of a representative of the Commission, and so should be respected, but do not represent magisterial teaching on the matter. It is possible for Catholics of good will to prudently and charitably express certain reservations about the contents of those documents.
 
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