Does anyone have a basic SSPX talking points document?

Started by Francisco Javier, September 24, 2024, 08:45:53 PM

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Francisco Javier

My university will be having a discussion about tradition. It will be hosted by someone who was vaguely sympathetic to tradition and against the excesses of 'the spirit of VII' but is trying to gatekeep things and towards a more traditional novus ordo mass. The speaker is known for being very accommodating of questions, and willing to discuss things openly for hours if needed and the audience will be conservative Catholics who are likely the most sympathetic to tradition

I have a hard time organizing my thoughts after having read the case for tradition. It's so hard to explain to normal, conservative Catholics of good will who call JPII "St. JPII THE GREAT" all the nuances of tradition without coming across like a raving lunatic or getting bogged down in the weeds.

Presumably rambling about the Freemasons and Jews would not convince anyone.

Religious liberty, ecumenism, and collegiality seem to be the hallmarks that I have heard before, but even that might be too much in the weeds for normal university students.

Any advice?

Danke

KreKre

Here are some great sources. This first book, Open Letter, is written specifically for laity. The second is a set of three volumes that documents the early history of the SSPX and presents an argument why they are right.

An Open Letter To Confused Catholics by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre:
https://archive.org/details/AnOpenLetterToConfusedCatholics

Apologia pro Marcel Lefebvre by Michael Davies:
https://sspxasia.com/Documents/Archbishop-Lefebvre/Apologia/

A Bishop Speaks by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre:
https://annas-archive.org/md5/3cc70d9ba49baeef943e5e3e5d271b3c


Also, a 55 video series "Crisis in the Church" by various SSPX priests is also excellent, if you prefer podcasts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrroZ-llvCE&list=PLonegYXBrLbStENq_HPyOb4Qy9_qE3_2w
Christus vincit! Christus regnat! Christus imperat!

Michael Wilson

You might like the "Most Frequently Asked Questions of the SSPX" pamphlet from the Angelus Press, and there are several youtube videos by the SSPX under that tittle.
"The World Must Conform to Our Lord and not He to it." Rev. Dennis Fahey CSSP

"My brothers, all of you, if you are condemned to see the triumph of evil, never applaud it. Never say to evil: you are good; to decadence: you are progess; to death: you are life. Sanctify yourselves in the times wherein God has placed you; bewail the evils and the disorders which God tolerates; oppose them with the energy of your works and your efforts, your life uncontaminated by error, free from being led astray, in such a way that having lived here below, united with the Spirit of the Lord, you will be admitted to be made but one with Him forever and ever: But he who is joined to the Lord is one in spirit." Cardinal Pie of Potiers