As a mother of 9, I concur with this wholeheartedly.
Sorry, I no don't take religious advice from women (see St. Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians) and I shouldn't even be discussing important matters with such irrational beings. Don't you have diapers to change?
I don't quite get how a putative Catholic man would say something like that to a mother of nine. Take a week off from posting.
You questioning my religiosity and manhood is uncharitable. Me pointing out that St. Paul and the Church forbid women from teaching or having authority over men on spiritual matters is not uncharitable. You'll find clergy writing through the ages that women are irrational compared to men and I think it is settled scientifically as well. But lesson learned.
It is pretty much the official SSPX position now that Vatican II is theoretically capable of orthodox interpretation, although such interpretation rarely takes place in practice.
Source for that? I'd love to see it. It must take Olympian levels of (mental) gymnastics to make a blatantly heretical document (such as Lumen Gentium) interpretable in an orthodox way.
Teaching your kids outright that the Novus Ordo is bad is a recipe ripe for badness, because what seems to happen is those little sede/trad kids grow up into teenagers and young adults, then they go and see a 'reverent' Novus Ordo or even an average Novus Ordo and go "where are the clowns?", and things don't go well from there.
Better, rather, to teach them the Faith, and make sure they "know their stuff", as opposed to teaching them the ins and outs of the lacking of the NO.
Just leaving it at clown masses? That isn't enough. First, you shock them with the sacrilege (clown masses, communion in the hand, BLM sermons, Protestant hymns, etc.), then you teach them about the invalidity of the mass according to dogma (Trent), the doubtful validity of the new rite of ordination (and episcopal consecration of bishops), then the problems with the consecration of the bread and wine (thank you Fr. Cekada (RIP) for the booklet!), and of course the fruits of the NO: 99% contracepting, nobody goes to confession, the majority supports abortion and gay marriage, 2/3rds of the priests are fags, systemic child molestation, etc. It's really a shame that there isn't a children's book on this.
But to raise a new point which I don't believe GoG brought up, it is a violation of dogma to "revise" the liturgy in such a way as to introduce heresies into the Mass. Whether or not this actually happened, I don't know. But at least the SSPX says it did, and they're not even sedevacantists.
It is impossible for the Church to promulgate and use a heretical rite as her lex orandi. If the NOM is heretical, then by definition the Church defected. There's no way around it.
Yes, there is. It's called sedevacantism. You don't want to face the fact that the sodomite heretic Giovanni Montini wasn't a pope. Once you accept that premise, the indefectibility of the Church still stands strong. With your logic, the Church's defectibility is on shaky ground.
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But if the rosary is not revealed then I would question why we should even be praying it to begin with. I think many people would agree with me that the rosary doesn't seem to be a very good prayer. (I could raise all sorts of objections to the rosary.) If the rosary developed, then either it developed under the inspiration of God, or it developed under the inspiration of the devil, or it developed under no inspiration at all--but it's kind of hard to believe that it developed under the inspiration of God, seeing as it does not seem to be a very good prayer. The rosary is then, at best, just some prayer on more or less the same level as any other prayer, and, at worst, a tool of the devil probably designed to lead us away from God. Only if the rosary--and the luminous mysteries--comes from God is it worth praying, but this does not seem to be the case.
https://fatima.org/about/fatima-the-requests/sister-lucy-of-fatima-speaks-on-the-rosary/
If the guy has a problem with the age-old and settled private revelation of St. Dominic involving the Rosary then quoting an even more controversial private revelation (Fatima) isn't going to help. Daily reminder that it is not a requirement for Catholics to believe in private revelations. Catholics are free to doubt them. I personally doubt Fatima over the claim that "Portugal won't lose the Faith" (because it obviously has).
Internet forums are the worst place for you to be, to be honest. You need a peasant's spirituality, because all you do is overthink things. You need a strong relationship with a patient and wise spiritual director.
This 100%
