Supplied Jurisdiction

Pope Francis recognized the Society’s right to hear confessions (p. 92)

Not true. The word “recognized” implies the SSPX had faculties to hear confessions before. As suspended priests, without jurisdiction, without assignment, without incardination they did not.

The Pope, in his JUBILEE OF MERCY, granted faculties to the SSPX.

For the Jubilee Year I had also granted that those faithful who, for various reasons, attend churches officiated by the priests of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X, can validly and licitly receive the sacramental absolution of their sins. For the pastoral benefit of these faithful, and trusting in the good will of their priests to strive with God’s help for the recovery of full communion in the Catholic Church, I have personally decided to extend this faculty beyond the Jubilee Year, until further provisions are made, lest anyone ever be deprived of the sacramental sign of reconciliation through the Church’s pardon.

Pages 92 - 98

(On Canon 1323 and State of Necessity and Fear and how starving fathers can pick another’s apples to feed their starving children)

But what about the FSSP?

In 1988 they found an off-ramp from whatever part of the emergency required disobedience to the Pope and seem to be following the Lefebvre path but without the schism.

That was 37 years ago. Do you get to say Necessity(!) to take apples for 37 years?

What is the plan to stop taking apples? Do you get to disobey the Pope indefinitely?

Many people who assist at the SSPX would argue that attending the local parish near them is a moral impossibility on account of the scandal, sacrilege, irreverence, and modernist teaching they encounter there

I’m not willing to go to a Catholic parish with scandal, sacrilege, irreverence, and heretical teaching.

If a man visits all parishes within an hour’s drive and they are all disqualified, I don’t judge him for going to SSPX, Protestants or Orthodox. I expect him to apply the same standards of not scandalous, reverent, etc to that church too.

But the day one of the parishes improves or a licit Latin Mass, or similar, arrives this excuse is no longer valid.

How many places in the United States is this excuse valid? Any? It would take some work to find out.

Is it safe to say that all FSSP, ICKSP, and diocesan Latin masses are ok?

I expect there are over 1,000 Novus Ordo parishes that are not of scandal, sacrilege, irreverence, and heretical teaching.

The geographies where the “moral impossibility” excuse is valid; the appears quite small and maybe non-existent in 2025 United States.

If the New Mass does not worry you, then perhaps the heretical spirit inherent to Protestantism has already been imbibed (p. 106)

Can you feel that way about the Novus Ordo mass AND be in communion with Novus Ordo Catholics? Can you feel that way and receive communion from a Novus Ordo priest at a Novus Ordo mass?

I expect not. And if you can’t, that is the definition of schism.

Schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him.

What is the spirit inherent to Protestantism?

Believing that the Church is not those in communion with the Pope, but rather those who hold the True Faith™.