Clerics like Cupich have taken care of that “problem”. How many Catholics are completely unaware of the birthright they have been cheated out of?
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- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
The larger evidence of un-Catholic modernist success is that we no longer have those long confessional lines. Nothing, it seems, is any longer a sin, unless you add in climate change denial and pro-border-think.
Until about fifteen years ago, Latin Masses in my city were hosted once weekly at a suburban church, and celebrated by a wonderful retired priest. A new pastor was assigned to that parish, one who had a dim view of the old rite. Fortunately, the Latin Mass community was invited to relocate to a lovely downtown church, one that had just four Masses on its Sunday schedule. Now there were five, with the addition of a regular Latin Mass.
Fast-forward 15 years, and that same parish now has two Latin Masses, four Novus Ordo Masses in English and one in Spanish.
While part of the need to expand my parishes’ Mass schedule can be explained by my city’s overall population growth, I don’t know of any exclusively Novus Ordo parishes in my city having to expand their Mass schedules…
Of course, Traditiones Custodes decrees that parishes like mine are doubleplus ungood, and if we were ever to get a new bishop who wanted to enforce that wretched edict, my parish would take a grievous hit to its enrollment and its revenue.
That is a really amazing likely pre-WW2 (or during WW2) historical record from the New York S. Francis of Assisi Shrine — Masses started @2:30 AM, 2:45 AM, 4AM, 5AM, 6AM etc— because so many people worked early, swing and day shifts in “the city that never sleeps” even on Saturday/Sunday —-and they wouldn’t think of missing Mass.
It was much the same in San Francisco on the late 1950’s.. every single Mass was packed.
Gaslight us again, Card. Cupich.
Don L, yes you are correct. Besides the mass, it is horrible what the modernists have done to confessions. Even sometimes in parishes with priests who are supposed to be more conservative or traditional, you find only a half and hour for confessions. Confessions can be heard not just for a half and hour before the Saturday Vigil Mass.
I thought Mass in those days had to start before noon. I’m guessing that shrine had a special permanent dispensation to regularly start Mass as late as 1 pm.