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Why You Should NOT Attend SSPX: A Deep Dive - Eric Tafoya Interviews Laurence Gonzaga on the SSPX

Why You Should NOT Attend SSPX: A Deep Dive

Eric Tafoya Interviews Laurence Gonzaga on the SSPX



FULL: https://www.youtube.com/live/7jmZhkXnKWg

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2:30 Introduction

https://www.youtube.com/live/7jmZhkXnKWg?si=MviS5LgHkbPfoOHB&t=150


6:00 Overview of the SSPX: Vatican 2, The New Mass, Reactions from Traditionalists

https://www.youtube.com/live/7jmZhkXnKWg?si=0D3ZfcA5ICjMowG2&t=360


14:30 The act of schism: Illicit consecrating 4 bishops without papal approval

https://www.youtube.com/live/7jmZhkXnKWg?si=Ly3ZTbEwvFImLAlH&t=870


16:30 SSPX justification: Epikeia, the state of emergency

https://www.youtube.com/live/7jmZhkXnKWg?si=rFn5L-4M139QlSsr&t=990


18:45 Pope John Paul II and Assisi: Emotional reactions, syncretism, indifferentism, universalism

https://www.youtube.com/live/7jmZhkXnKWg?si=rUoSHgmDf9ytJnEG&t=1185


25:45 SSPX in Colton, CA, my first Traditional Latin Mass

https://www.youtube.com/live/7jmZhkXnKWg?si=5MpZMFenpyNTktWh&t=1545


29:00 Bishop Barnes told me the SSPX was in schism

https://www.youtube.com/live/7jmZhkXnKWg?si=J16K5AJD7ZpzZx6G&t=1740


30:00 The Protetant core issues: Sola scriptura and Sola fide; The principle of unity in Catholicism is the Pope

https://www.youtube.com/live/7jmZhkXnKWg?si=k7b2U6vmBTNh1AV1&t=1800


32:20 SSPX pictures of the pope in their chapels; the bishops of the SSPX; SSPX lacks jurisdiction; the lip service of the SSPX

https://www.youtube.com/live/7jmZhkXnKWg?si=j7fc-efnzS9omy6U&t=1940


37:30 Valid Mass, Illicit Mass; The parallels with the Eastern Orthodox status

https://www.youtube.com/live/7jmZhkXnKWg?si=a2Icx2tl1p5pGMRr&t=2250


42:25 Is the SSPX part of the Catholic Church?; valid SSPX confessions; SSPX always heard confessions without faculties

https://www.youtube.com/live/7jmZhkXnKWg?si=MTklgjwkV7eX6F9J&t=2545


46:55 Ecclesia supplet: the Church provides the grace principle

https://www.youtube.com/live/7jmZhkXnKWg?si=N6pKmZ_D-zLm6ttd&t=2815


48:10 What church are the SSPX a part of?; True priests, but not of the Catholic Church

https://www.youtube.com/live/7jmZhkXnKWg?si=hGuT9O2sCfDsRVbX&t=2890


49:40 What makes a sacrament valid?: The SSPX, Eastern Orthodox, and Sedevacantists

https://www.youtube.com/live/7jmZhkXnKWg?si=9G2Txn-WtVD18q4A&t=2980


52:55 The Calvary Chapel; Sermon on the Gospel of John when the Apostles washed the feet of Jesus; What authority sent the SSPX?; the cult of Lefebvre

https://www.youtube.com/live/7jmZhkXnKWg?si=ouAprUONR3j9MQ41&t=3175


56:45 The Creation of the Faternity of St. Peter (FSSP); Flirting with the SSPX; the SSPX escape hatch for mainstream Trads

https://www.youtube.com/live/7jmZhkXnKWg?si=bpTAsp8v2GzcVm_D&t=3405


59:35 The ironic folly of the mainstream Trad defenders of the SSPX; the SSPX does not think YOU are in the Catholic Church; The pope is head of the "conciliar Church" or the "synodal Church"

https://www.youtube.com/live/7jmZhkXnKWg?si=vV-TLn3Tt4NTQHPA&t=3575


1:04:20 The SSPX: A False Solution to a Real Problem

https://www.youtube.com/live/7jmZhkXnKWg?si=CWvyhhfOiCFAEPjd&t=3860


1:12:30 Should Catholics Attend the SSPX?

https://www.youtube.com/live/7jmZhkXnKWg?si=46-uvYW-czLCbU1S&t=4350


1:17:00 Closing remarks

https://www.youtube.com/live/7jmZhkXnKWg?si=3EYVhUsussauTnOU&t=4620

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