[ultima ratio]

How long do you think the Indult Masses and their priests would have lasted if there wasn't an SSPX for the fed-up faithful to retreat to? The Amchurch bishops would have crushed them long ago. It is fear of SSPX and its attraction that keeps the Indults alive.

As it is, in some Indult parishes communion in the hands and other Novus Ordo practices are being slowly introduced. As for SSPX priests doing what your priest can't do--they can baptize in the old rite, they can confirm in the old rite, they can confer Holy Orders in the old rite, they can give extreme unction in the old rite, and so on-none of which your priest can do.

[Thorondir]

It is fear of SSPX and its attraction that keeps the Indults alive.

Could be, but you cannot say with absolute certainty that this is the Holy Father's motivation. Regardless, the Holy Spirit is keeping the reverent Mass alive, though tenuously.

As it is, in some Indult parishes communion in the hands and other Novus Ordo practices are being slowly introduced.

This is absolutely forbidden... (laughing) as are most of the wild abuses going on in the Nervous Disorder Messes. (laughing because the Vatican's forbidding them has not done much good, has it? Disobedience to Rome fathers ugly children, as we have seen.)

...none of which your priest can do.

Hmmm... I'll have to ask him. Thanks for the info.

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