Romanus Catholicus sum.

Traditional Catholic. Anti-antiquarianist. Anti-heretic.

[Pascal @KnowsPascal]

Jesus hath many lovers of His heavenly kingdom, but few bearers of His Cross.

-Thomas á Kempis

[John Traddington @JohnTraddington]

St. Paul: Though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema.

Vatican II popes: We preach a different gospel than our predecessors, and let him who is disobedient be anathema.

[Henry von Blumenthal @PaulinusOfTrier]

"Know that I have sent away Athanasius from communion with us, having accepted the judgment contained in your letter." - Pope Liberius (Studens paci)

Mgr Lefebvre was known as "the Athanasius of our times."

[Peter Kwasniewski @DrKwasniewski]

People sure are jumping the gun in their assumption about how EVERYONE connected in any way with the SSPX is now EXCOMMUNICATED and IN SCHISM. One would think the internet is swarming with wannabe inquisitors who can't wait to let their inner Torquemada out!

In any case, it looks like Card. Fernandez bungled his effort (again). If you adopt a legal point of view, neither the priests of the SSPX nor the laity who attend their chapels are subject to excommunication.

I shared the two articles that (so far) have appeared on this question with several high-profile canon lawyers—one of them the judicial vicar of a major archdiocese!—and they all said the analyses were essentially correct (see links below).

One of them wrote to me:

«What another canonical mess they've made. I had hopes that, with Leo having a degree in the law, we'd at least get some sanity and consistency, but no. As you've seen, the excommunications, at least of the priests and especially of the lay faithful, are not binding. In their haste to jump on the situation, they've made it worse than before.

Certainly, the lay faithful who attend Mass at an SSPX chapel, even ordinarily, are not under any censure whatsoever simply for that fact. They are not schismatic, they need no "rite" or process to return to full communion, having never left it. Kennedy Hall's analysis seems quite sound and reliable to me.

Perhaps it's best that the Vatican is being run by mental midgets, else they would have sewn things up in a more disastrous way. Instead, they've given us a net with more holes than Peter's fishing nets on the shores of Galilee.»

https://t.co/F8qDjRiqHG

https://t.co/r36ObxWyWQ

[Yinzer G @yinzer_g]

The 5 reasons soccer won't increase in popularity after the world cup is over.

1. The flopping. This goes against the soul of every American. We value grit, toughness and basically not being a pussy.
2. The clock. No one wants to get to the end of a game and have no clue when it's over. Just stop & start the clock when you need to, like sane people.
3. Offsides. Just put a line out there like everyone else. This floating line you have makes the game unwatchable. It's like a built in, anti-excitement glitch you manufactured for your game.
4. Red cards. What a stupid rule that you automatically get kicked out for the next game for getting one. I can understand suspending someone after a league review of something you did that was horrible. But to automatically get suspended because of what a ref saw at full speed is stupid.
5. Ties. In America we call it kissing your sister, cause that's the same feeling you get after a tie. Pure disgust. In soccer, it seems like the result you prefer most. Play til you have a winner.

[SSPX News: Society of Saint Pius X @SSPXEN]

...the Holy Father will discover, with great joy and profound consolation, authentically Catholic souls whose bond with the Church was never founded upon the shifting sands of an ambiguous dialogue, but upon the rock of the faith of Peter. https://t.co/e00zyq4izv

[Romanus Catholicus sum. @RomanusCath]

@Zachspeare Hate modernism, but feel sorrow and even sympathy for those that have fallen victim to its falsehoods. We must pray for those who are led astray and who persecute us. I get the feeling, truly, but always remember Christ on the Cross: “Forgive them, Father…”

[The Catholic Esquire @EsquireCatholic]

The SSPX controversy reminds me of Covid. There’s a huge deadly “schism” (deadly virus), therefore we must accept Vatican II and New Mass (isolate and wear a mask), and if you question the popular narrative your friends abandon you and call you nuts.

[Deacon Nick Donnelly @ProtecttheFaith]

To understand what they mean by formally adhereing to the SSPX

Cardinal Fernandez's Explanatory Note makes the following reference:

"As far as the lay faithful are concerned, those who formally adhere to the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X under the conditions established in the Explanatory Note of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts of 1996 (cf. ibid., 7), which is still in force and which this Dicastery makes its own, are to be considered schismatics and excommunicated."

This is the text he references:

PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR LEGISLATIVE TEXTS
EXPLANATORY NOTE

On the excommunication for schism incurred by the adherents of the movement of Bishop Marcel Lefebvre(Communicationes, 29 [1997] 239–243)

Which states:

4. As declared in the Motu Proprio No. 5 c), the latae sententiae excommunication for schism affects those who "formally adhere" to the said schismatic movement. Although the question regarding the exact scope of the notion of "formal adherence to the schism" should be put to the competent Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, it seems to this Pontificial Council that such adherence must imply two complementary elements:

a) one of an internal nature, consisting in freely and consciously sharing the substance of the schism—that is, in opting for the followers of Lefebvre in such a way that this choice is placed above obedience to the Pope (at the root of this attitude there will usually be positions contrary to the Magisterium of the Church);

b) another of an external nature, consisting in the exteriorization of that choice, the most manifest sign of which will be exclusive participation in Lefebvrian "ecclesial" acts, without taking part in the acts of the Catholic Church (this is, however, a non-unequivocal sign, since there is the possibility that some faithful take part in the liturgical functions of the followers of Lefebvre without, however, sharing their schismatic spirit).

Regarding other faithful:

6. In the case of other faithful, on the other hand, it is obvious that an occasional participation in liturgical acts or activities of the Lefebvrian movement, done without making one's own the attitude of doctrinal and disciplinary disunity of that movement, is not sufficient to speak of formal adherence to the movement. In pastoral practice, it may prove more difficult to judge their situation. Account must be taken above all of the intention of the person, and of the translation of that interior disposition into actions. The various situations must therefore be judged case by case, in the competent venues of the external forum and internal forum.

7. In any case, it will always be necessary to distinguish the moral question regarding the existence or non-existence of the sin of schism from the juridical-penal question regarding the existence of the delict (crime) of schism and its consequent sanction. To the latter, the provisions of Book VI of the CIC must be applied (including cans. 1323–1324).

[John Traddington @JohnTraddington]

Gentlemen, this is synodality manifest. Have a look at the excommunication here. What is the charge? Consecrating a bishop? A traditional, Catholic bishop? Oh, that's a nice excommunication, sir. Ah, yes, I see that you know your Canon Law well.

[Kennedy Hall @kennedyhall]

Discussing the SSPX with people firmly planted against, is often like discussing Covid with people who bought the narrative:

Facts are irrelevant
Consistency of argument is absent
General kindness is often missing
And an appeal to authority is always the 'death knell'

[Stephen Kokx @StephenKokx]

♥️ In 1899, Pope Leo XIII consecrated the entire human race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The @USCCB 'consecrated' the United States to the Sacred Heart today. What do you notice about the differences of those consecrations? 👇

[Romanus Catholicus sum. @RomanusCath]

@SenWarren Typical communist talking points make by a typical communist politician who isn’t more than a parasite on civilization.

[Fr. Gabriel T Mosher, OP @lukei4655]

Can we stop using the term “Vigil Mass” as a shorthand for “Anticipatory Mass?” A Vigil Mass is a specific thing that significantly differs from an Anticipatory Mass.

[James Anderson White @jamesawhiite]

It’s imperative that we revert to STANDARD, not Daylight time, for two reasons, one of which you may have never considered.

You know the first: solar noon is closest to 12 o’clock all year. That means an equal number of hours before and after noon each day.

This also means earlier sunrises which are significantly better for establishing a healthy circadian rhythm.

The second reason is that nearly ONE THIRD of US counties are in the wrong timezone.

A significant swath of the country isn’t only an artificial hour ahead because of daylight time… but TWO HOURS ahead of true solar time.

Year-round daylight time, especially without recalibrating time zones, would establish this error permanently, affecting millions of Americans.

We should be letting the Sun dictate the day the way God made it. Arbitrary, artificial tampering would be worse for us all.

Fix the time zones and affix standard time.

[Catholic OrthoDixie @PapalOrthodixie]

Liar. The TLM was literally cancelled and banned by John Paul II for decades. Only because the SSPX tied it to Vatican II did Benedict XVI undo the ban at all. That it exists at all today is entirely thanks to the SSPX.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr. @DaleJr]

Kyle and I had a really challenging existence for many years. But we luckily took the time to figure out our differences and that was something he instigated with a conversation in his bus around how we each managed our racing teams. I was super eager for us to get on better terms. But it was he who made the effort for that to be possible. We did some media together also to laugh through some of the things we put each other through many years ago. Most recently we had even been discussing him running my Late Model at Wilkesboro this summer. He seemed extremely happy and we had planned to meet up next Thursday to get his seat to the shop. He laughed over the idea of his fans and JRM fans having to cheer in unison during that race.

Kyle was one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. No one can deny that. But he was also a father, a husband, brother, son, and a friend to many. My heart is broken for the Busch family. I will never be able to make sense of this loss but I am thankful that we had found a way to become friends.

[Henry von Blumenthal @PaulinusOfTrier]

You can repeat "automatic excommunication" over and over again? Good. I can repeat Canon 1324 over and over again:
Canon 1324

§1. The perpetrator of a violation is not exempt from penalty, but the penalty prescribed in the law or precept must be diminished or a penance substituted in its place, if the offence was committed ... by a person who was compelled by grave fear, even if only relatively grave, or by necessity or grave inconvenience, unless the act is intrinsically evil or tends to be harmful to souls ... by a person who acted against someone who gravely and unjustly provoked the person;

§2. In the circumstances mentioned in §1, the offender is not bound by a latae sententiae penalty.

[Romanus Catholicus sum. @RomanusCath]

@henrymcmaster Requiescat in pace.