The action of the Pope against the Traditional Mass demonstrates yet again the popularity of cancel culture on the Left. The Pope hates the Traditional Mass and the “rigid” Catholics who love it. Thus with a stroke of the pen he seeks to cancel it, and put it on the path of ultimate extinction. He will fail. In Pope Francis we see the last gasp of the Vatican II era clergy, desperately attempting to preserve Vatican II in amber. The current action of the Pope is a sign of weakness rather than strength. It does nothing to check the growing popularity of the Traditional Mass. This is a temporary victory for him. Small joy may he have in it.
Amen, Don.
Don
Remember
Our faith is in Christ Jesus, not the yoyo brain who is his minister.
(Apologies to the many who are not yoyo brains.)
Is the quote given by Pope Benedict XVI from July 8th of this year or long ago? He’s correct of course. If it’s an old quote, I pray that he comes out with a new and similar quote now that Frankie just dissed him and millions of Roman Catholics.
Rod Dreher has an good article at the AC.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/traditional-latin-mass-catholicism-trads-not-the-problem/
Pope Francis certainly doesn’t think his authority ends at the door.
Now this takes the cake ….
“Making sense of Pope Francis’ new restrictions on the Latin Mass”
James Martin, S.J.
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2021/07/19/latin-mass-pope-francis-james-martin-241078
From Dreher’s article:
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“You are looking at the future of the Catholic Church in America in that photo. The TLM people are relatively tiny in number today, but let two or three more generations pass, and they will be in America as they are in France: a huge proportion of those who still go to mass; who still believe that stuff.”
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It’s about money and numbers in the pew. Force the TLM goers to support NO parishes, religious ed, priestly pensions, office workers, etc. After all, the average NO go-er doesn’t think it much of a sin to skip out on Sunday (and miss the collection plate), but TLM go-ers are an entirely different issue. Now, whether or not a lot of TLM go-ers will flee to the Eastern Rite Churches, I am not sure. Many probably will. Some will join the SSPX. I suspect a few may even find an agreeable Protestant parish–if you must go to a church service you view as Protestant, you might just decide to do so at a Protestant “church” (especially if you have friends there) because at least they do “Protestant” well.
The defense of “we can’t have Latin masses because those split the parish” is pretty laughable. There are over double the number of Spanish language masses in my area as Latin masses. There is absolutely NO crossover between people who attend those masses, not even outside of mass.
Can anyone even conceive of a bishop in America saying “there should be no Spanish language masses, for the sake of unity?”
RH, good point. Mid n late 1800s and early 1900s US waves of Catholic immigrants. There were homilies delivered in many languages. The Masses were mostly celebrated in Latin but there were other rites celebrated also in the old languages for the particular rites. No disunity. This pope just had a serious operation. Once again he’s feeling mortal and this latest is about his place in history. He should worry more about his place in the hereafter.