Frank Walker

But everybody was familiar with this Latin Mass, the Mass in Latin, which had been basically the same Mass

Going back all throughout history, I mean, you can read about people going to Catholic Masses.

It doesn't depend on the century.

This is what happened.

All of a sudden, they had this new Mass that supposedly they came up with on a napkin or something.

And a bishop that had been a missionary, a French bishop for a long time, and had been at Vatican to petition Paul VI to create his own new society, St.

Pius X.,

where they only said the Latin Mass because he was so sure that it's not something that we could drop.

And in fact, not using the Old Mass was something condemned by Pope Pius V. So this is something that was really actually sort of anathematized to come up with a new Mass.

There was a huge drop-off in Catholic church attendance after this new Mass.

And if you've never been to, if you're not a Catholic, you've never been to the new Mass, you walk in and you might find yourself a little bit uncomfortable.

It's not necessarily a very pleasant experience, depending on where you go.

So the Society of St.

Pius X was able to have their own seminary and train very well, very good priests that were not sort of infected with many of the ambiguous and heretical things that could be taken out of the Vatican II documents.

And so you had a sort of purity of Catholic faith.

And they just kept going forward when Paul and then John Paul II came in until they ran out of bishops.

And when they began running out of bishops, they could not get a replacement from John Paul II.

Yeah.

Yes, it's true that the FSSP, which is a spinoff that happened after the 88 consecrations of bishops, they received their own special organization.

They don't have bishops.