THE FSSPX UPCOMING SCHISM—IS IT TOO MUCH TO DO ABOUT NOTHING OR IS IT SOMETHING?

Let’s face it, like the German Catholic Augustinian monk, Father Martin Luther, the FSSPX are rebels, revolutionaries and think they know better than Holy Mother Church headed by the Successor of Saint Peter. They think, like Fr. Martin Luther, they can keep the Church faithful and purified. 

Unlike Fr. Martin Luther’s reformation that was instrumentalized by the various kingdoms at the time to distance themselves from Rome’s political interference, no country in which there are large numbers of FSSPX communities will use them to hate Rome. 

In terms of the number of practicing Catholics, the FSSPX are a drop in the bucket and are receiving far more attention for their disobedience and upcoming schism than their numbers require or deserve.

I was happy when Saint Pope John Paul II reached out to traditionalists to allow them to have the Tridentine Mass with His Holiness’ Ecclesia Dei. He also formed the FSSP to keep those who were attracted to the rebellious FXSSP in ecclesial union with Rome.

Pope Benedict put St. John Paul’s efforts on steroids only to have an authoritarian pope reverse all of that in a very unfortunate and, quite frankly, dishonest way. 

Synodality, as promoted by Pope Francis, encourages the heterodox to let their voices be heard even when they were speaking out against defined doctrines of the Church, as it concerns Holy Orders and more perniciously about changing Catholic morality in sexual matters into acceptable amorality. 

Yes, those denying defined Catholic teachings were encouraged to let their position be known through synodality. They are secure and brash enough to say that they must first change Catholics’ orthodoxy by making unacceptable sinful behavior into acceptable and virtuous lifestyles. Then and only then, can they change doctrines and morals—they understand what it means to cook Catholics in a crockpot so they won’t know they are being cooked only to learn eventually that they are overcooked!

Yet, the FSSPX doesn’t really want to change any doctrines or moral teachings of the Church. Yes, they disagree with the post-Vatican II revision of the Mass by a small group of elitist liturgical theologians. 

Yes, they disagree with ecumenism, religious freedom and a few other non-dogmatic teachings of Vatican II—more pastoral positions than dogmatic definitions . 

Yet, synodality gave voices to heterodox Catholics, to include some bishops and some bishop-cardinals, to change the doctrines and dogmas of Holy Orders, Marriage, and sexual morality, positions that really need be be anathematized not regularized. 

The recent practice of synodality as well as the heretical and schismatic German synodal way are much greater threat to Catholic ecclesial unity and communion.

The FSSPX are insignificant chicken feed compared to the greatest threat to the Catholic Church in this our Modern Church which is heterodox synodality and the German Sinodal Way. 

Just my two cents worth, as outdated as cents is (pun intended).