It is important for Catholics not to judge a priest according to the Holy Mass he offers, the Traditional Latin Mass(TLM) or Novus Ordo Mass.
Since the priests of the Society of St. Pius X(SSPX) offer the Latin Mass believing Protestants do not need to convert into the Catholic Church for salvation while there are priests who offer Holy Mass in Italian in Rome, who say they need to convert into the Catholic Church to avoid Hell.
Bishop Athanasius Schneider offers the Latin Mass ( which is not the same as the TLM) and he will not affirm the strict interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS) while a Dominican priest, a confessor at the Basilica of St.Mary Majors, Rome had to leave the city, after he supported in public the old ecclesiology in harmony with Vatican Council II.
In England members of the Latin Mass Society attend Holy Mass offered by bishops who are ultra liberals while I know an Italian priest who offered the Novus Ordo Mass in Rome who could not be incardinated here, since he believed there was no salvation outside the Catholic Church and non Catholics are oriented to Hell.He said this publicly.
So when Fr. John Zuhlsdorf and Rorate Caeli project the Latin Mass ( not the TLM, I repeat) as the Mass as compared to the Novus Ordo Mass , don't be fooled .
Remember if you go for Mass in English offered by a Paulist Father in Rome he has rejected EENS, interpreted Vatican Council II with invisible non Catholics allegedly being visible exceptions to EENS, changed the understanding of the Nicene Creed and the Apostles Creed and rejected the Athanasius Creed.This is all heresy and a mortal sin of faith.The Paulists do not deny it. If they denied it they would be saying that they affirm Feeneyite EENS and this would get them into trouble with the Jewish Left.But aside from these liberals, even at the FSSP church in Rome, Santissima Trinita dei Pellegrini,Fr.Joseph Kramer, FSSP, the former Rector, will not affirm EENS, does not interpret Vatican Council II in harmony with Tradition, projects the Creeds as a rupture with the Syllabus of Errors of Pope Pius IX and sees the old catechisms contradicting each other.In this way he remains an FSSP priest in Rome.It would be the same for the other FSSPX priests here.They do not deny it too.
So the Paulist Father, the FSSP and others, are promoting heresy with politically correct new doctrines and theology, independent of the liturgy and the Mass.
We cannot say a priest is a traditionalist just because he offers Holy Mass in Latin or another priest is a liberal since offers Holy Mass in Italian or English.
One way to tell the difference; to bring out the difference,is to ask the priest if the baptism of desire(BOD), baptism of blood(BOB) and being saved in invincible ignorance(I.I) refer to physically visible or invisible cases in 2019? Are they exceptions to the dogma EENS or are they not exceptions?
If they say that BOD, BOB and I.I are exceptions to EENS then he refers to physically visible cases of BOD, BOB and I.I.
This means Vatican Council II ( LG 8, LG 16, UR 3 etc) would be a rupture with EENS.
It means this is a new version of EENS.Since BOD, BOB and I.I refer to known people saved outside the Church.So he cannot say all Jews, Muslims and Protestants in 2019 need to convert into the Catholic Church to be saved and there are no exceptions.
So the Catechism of Pope Pius X would have to contradict itself and other Catechisms.The Syllabus of Errors becomes obsolete.Etc, etc.
If the priest, however says BOD, BOB and I.I refer to personally unknown and physically invisible people in 2019, then you know that he is supporting the old ecclesiology, irrespective if the Mass is in English or Latin.
So when he offers Holy Mass with the false premise ( invisible non Catholics are visible examples of salvation outside the Church) ask him why does he do this.Is it done in ignorance or is he afraid of something?
Put this question also to Cardinal Raymond Burke and Bishop Athanasius Schneider. It applies to them too.
-Lionel Andrades
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