Are the SSPX Confessions Valid?

Are absolutions given by Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) priests in the Sacrament of Penance valid?  If you search the internet you are bound to find very confident sounding answers to this question from various “experts.”  These answers are typically couched in most impressive canonical terms.  The reader is told that a priest has to have the proper “faculties” or “jurisdiction” to validly absolve.  Society priests, we are told, have neither. Thus, unless one is ignorant of this fact, one’s sins are not forgiven in this situation....MORE>>>

Encouragement from Pope Francis?
Traditional Pontifical Mass Inside St. Peter’s for Close of Second Annual Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage in Rome, October 2013.  (Remnant Tours to Organize U.S. Contingent)

by Alberto Caroso

Rome Correspondent

(ROME) The majority of tradition-minded faithful here in Rome were certainly pleased to learn that there will be a second Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage in October similar to that which took place in Rome last November, and culminated with a solemn pontifical in St Peter’s Basilica celebrated by Cardinal Cañizares Llovera, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship...MORE>>>