Cardinal Newman's letter to Father Henry James Coleridge SJ on the question of Anglican Orders provides a way of approaching the question of the Novus Ordo sacramental rites.
“If we do not even receive the baptism of Anglicans, how can we receive their ordinations?”- were Anglican baptisms not accepted by the Catholic Church???
“If we do not even receive the baptism of Anglicans, how can we receive their ordinations?”- were Anglican baptisms not accepted by the Catholic Church???
They weren't taken as invalid, but nor were they assumed to be valid. See some of the texts here, for example:
https://www.wmreview.org/p/doubtful-baptisms