Reply #2: I thought Gibson was affiliated with the SSPX [View All]

[JVS]

in long form, the Society for the Sainthood of Pius X.

http://www.sspx.org/

According to the wiki article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_St._Pius_X , the SSPX is not outside of the Catholic Church but has been warned that it is perilously close to engaging in schismatic behavior.

If Gibson is a parishoner in one of these Churches then he is infact a Catholic, but one that is part of a group that could get booted. On the otherhand the pressures they are putting on the Vatican may succeed in undoing some of the Vatican II changes.

I think that calling him a fundamentalist, or implying that he is a protestant as a Lutheran or Methodist would be is unfair to those groups. Fundamentalists and Protestants don't get themselves all pissed off about the replacement of the tridentine mass after Vatican II.