Pub Meeting (!) and FSSPX Mass Prompt Minnesota Bishop’s Warning

Bishop Patrick Neary of Saint Cloud, Minnesota, issued a diocesan warning against the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X (FSSPX) after an unauthorized Mass was celebrated in the diocese.

In a letter dated September 2, Bishop Neary said he had learned of a social-media post promoting a meeting at the restaurant Opole Pub to “explore bringing the Latin Mass” to Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Opole. The same post advertised a Latin Mass for the following day at the Opole Ballpark Pavilion, part of the local baseball grounds.

Monsignor Neary wrote that neither event was sanctioned by the diocese.

Both, he said, involved a priest of the FSSPX — “a group recently declared by the Holy See to be in schism with the Catholic Church because of the illicit ordination of four bishops without a papal mandate.”

The bishop told Catholics not to “support or participate in FSSPX-sponsored activities, including inviting FSSPX priests to celebrate the sacraments.” He warned that doing so “can place individuals at risk of separating themselves from full communion with the Church.”

Bishop Neary pointed to diocesan-authorized Masses at St. Paul Church in St. Cloud and Sacred Heart Church in Flensburg, the latter about a 20-minute drive from Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

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