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Is the SSPX a Cult?

The honest answer, worked through the way a serious person would work it through, by someone who spent his adolescence inside The first thing people ask when they find out I wrote...

"I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart."

How the SSPX formation trades truth and charity for tribal loyalty—and why I will not answer in kind

Extremists on both sides

By Dan Kavic

Hello All, I wanted to share some thoughts about the latest video that created some buzz recently online...where John Henry Westen had a 40 minute discussion with Father James...

The Revolution Devours Its Children

On the salvation the SSPX promised us, and the generation it lost The revolution devours its children. — Jacques Mallet du Pan, 1793 I put those words at the front of Traddyland...

Submission to the Inquiry into Cults and Organised Fringe Religious Groups (On the SSPX)

Lou's written submission to the Inquiry into Cults and Organised Fringe Religious Groups, on the Society of St. Pius X. The PDF is being re-attached; write to Lou if you would like...

Is the SSPX laity/priests in schism?

By Dan Kavic

Fr Gerald Murray is out there trying to get the SSPX a lifeline to say that they're not in schism for those who adhere to the errors that they hold. This is false, because the Pope...

Sounding Brass

On Taylor Marshall, the SSPX, and 1 Corinthians 13 f I speak with the tongues of men, and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And...

Clowns to the Left of Me Jokers to the Right...

A simple diagnostic to determine where you fall on the ideological spectrum I have been humming that Stealers Wheel lyric on and off for about fifty years. I hummed it especially...

Chicken Little, Pollyanna, and Socrates Walk Into a Bar

The Collateral Damage of Polemics Chicken Little walks into a bar and orders a drink. He hasn't finished his first sip before he's leaning across the counter to tell everyone...

The SSPX and Plato's Allegory Part II "Classic vs. New Coke"

On the theological problem the Society of St. Pius X cannot solve by being right. I have written elsewhere about my own exodus from the cave — the allegory Plato tells in the...

The SSPX and Plato’s Allegory Part I "The Cave"

Editor's note: An earlier version of this essay was less precise than it should have been about the current institutional status of one of the classmates paraphrased below. The...

Sympathy for the Devil? A word on the SSPX Schism

On the piety of the Society of St. Pius X, the sympathy it inspires in serious Catholics, and the deadly sin their piety cannot overcome. Mick Jagger opens the Rolling Stones song...

Rules for Radicals…of the SSPX

Rad Trad apologists tap Saul Alinsky to rationalize their schism.

Archbishop Lefebvre's "slight of hand":the SSPX 1988 Consecrations

On May 5, 1988, Archbishop Lefebvre signed an accord with Rome that gave him what he had asked for. Weeks later, he reneged. Thirty-eight years on, the Society of St. Pius X is...

"Blame the Rooster for the Sunrise": The post hoc fallacy at the heart of the traditionalist case against Vatican II

"Blame the Rooster for the Sunrise": The post hoc fallacy at the heart of the traditionalist case against Vatican II The core traditionalist indictment of the Second Vatican...

The Wrong Defense of Tradition

Conservative Catholics are being misled into seeing the SSPX as a victim. The Society is not a victim. It is the architect of its own separation. In the past three years, a...

An Open Letter on Ideology, Radicalization, and the Road Back

I was raised inside one of the patterns this country is now living with at scale. For four decades, my family was part of the Society of St. Pius X — a breakaway Catholic sect that...

What is Traddyland?

"Traddyland" A term used to refer to a specific subculture or community within traditionalist or conservative religious circles, particularly in Catholicism. It typically refers to...

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