And the long Lent of this kidney stone of a pontificate continues.
PopeWatch: Just in Time For Lent
- 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.
In a few years, after the present Pope obtains his Heavenly Reward, and we have a new Pope (or perhaps even after that Vicar has fallen asleep in Christ and there is another one), can that Pope issue a, um, “correction” or “addendum” to TC and allow the Tridentine Rite to flourish again?
Yes.
The delightful irony is that the future overturning of TC will have TC overturning SP as a nice precedent. If nothing that came before matters, then those who come after you will be happy to oblige in kind. I don’t know if papacy as ouroboros is a good thing, but here we are.
There is something in this pope’s past / youth / formative years that really turned him mean. What was ever done or said to him that warrants such an extreme reaction to beauty, reverence and solemnity. There is no obvious reason for it, IMHO.
“The delightful irony is that the future overturning of TC will have TC overturning SP as a nice precedent. If nothing that came before matters, then those who come after you will be happy to oblige in kind. I don’t know if papacy as ouroboros is a good thing, but here we are.”
Indeed. That is really the trouble with using authority to beat up on one’s political opponents (because clearly that is all TC ever was.) Sooner or later the other side takes power, and it’s turnabout time. It corrupts the institution, of course, but human institutions are always corrupted eventually. It’s a lesson people like Francis and his ilk, and people like Pelosi, Reid, and Schumer, ought to learn. The danger for us is that when less petty people do take power, they may allow some or all of the nonsense dictated by Francis to remain in force out of misguided “concern for the institution.” Its too late for that, but it could happen.
The next time Francis mouths platitudes about how he’s committed to “collegiality”, remember this moment.
Francis claims that he was prompted to crack down on the Latin Mass by the bishops. Supposedly, when surveyed the bishops overwhelmingly begged Rome to do something about those bothersome Latin Mass Catholics. And so, in his paternal solicitude, Francis issued Traditiones Custodes, to give the bishops what they supposedly asked for.
Except the overwhelming majority of bishops didn’t want to enforce Francis’ “present”, so now he’s declaring they have no choice in the matter.
And that’s ‘collegiality’ ?
That’s a great point, Clinton. It’s like the old Soviet claim that the Afghan government invited them into their country to take over and kill them.
Pope St. Pius V, Quo Primum, July 19, 1570:
“By this our decree, to be valid in perpetuity, we determine and order that never shall anything be added to, omitted from, or changed in this Missal. . .At no time in the future can a priest, whether secular or order priest, ever be forced to use any other way of saying Mass. And so as to preclude once and for all any scruples of conscience and fear of ecclesiastical penalties and censures, we herewith declare that it is in virtue of our Apostolic Authority that we decree and determine that this our present order and decree is to last in perpetuity and can never be legally revoked or amended at a future date. . . And if anyone would nevertheless ever dare to attempt any action contrary to this order of ours, given for all times, let him know that he has incurred the wrath of Almighty God and of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul.”
BTW, I rarely can attend a TLM.
So, each Lent I resolve to read the Gospels. Sometimes I don’t start until Holy Week.
This year I started today. And I thought about reading The Revelation to John and working my way forward. That didn’t get far.
Because right before Revelation is the Epistle of Jude and that is similar in content to the Second Epistle of Peter. Read them. They’re short and apropos to contemporary ‘events’ [I was about to type ‘evil’ but stifled myself].
Pray for those who persecute you.
Bergoglio’s Argentine upbringing is the key to understanding him. He is a Latin American Jesuit, which is, to be polite, a bunch of heretics. He was an admirer of the demagogue Juan Peron, who destroyed his nation’s economy in the name of helping the poor. He saw the TLM faithful in Argentina as a bunch of wealthy hypocrites.
Add to that a typical.Argentine dislike of the United States of America and – presto – we have a Pontiff who hates his own Church, or at the least sehmenys of it.
Bergoglio rules like a caudillo – a word used to describe the typical Latin American dictator to whom politics is a blood sport. It is not enough to win an election. The other side must be crushed without mercy.
Look at what Bergoglio did to the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculata 10 years ago. He destroyed that order with the back of his hand.
Bergoglio fancies himself a player in the world stage, someone of influence who seeks like minded people on his pet issues and drones on causes far outside of what should be his purview.
Bergoglio apparently cares not about dwindling church attendance, the Vatican Bank problems, the lack of vocations, child abuse, abortion, or even Church teaching. He acts as if the Church is his own personal plaything…it brings to mind the Twilight Zone episode of the six year old boy who could make anything happen by willing it, and turning anyone he was annoyed at into a scarecrow in a cornfield.
Bergoglio is clearly unqualified for his job. He should never have been a cardinal or a bishop. He shows none of the mercy he used to blather about. At the same time the German bishops do whatever they want with no fear of repurcussion, the American bishops are terrified of him.
Putin has no respect for him. The Chinese laugh at him behind closed doors. Vigano publicly accused Bergoglio of covering up an abuse case in Argentina.
This papacy is a chastisement, and God permits the innocent to suffer with the guilty in times of chastisement. I wish it were a kidney stone..we could have it removed. It is more like a blockage in one’s colon.
These days, I have been far from being a good Catholic. I undetstand why Mr. Skojec did what he did..not saying I totally agree with it, but I get it. Vatican II and the new Mass have produced “fruit” that I have seen family and friends abandon the Church.
I have ranted enough. It is far too easy to find fault and errors. It is hard to find and enact solutions. Nobody ever built a statue in honor of a critic.
Bergoglio rules like a caudillo – a word used to describe the typical Latin American dictator to whom politics is a blood sport. It is not enough to win an election. The other side must be crushed without mercy.
Look at what Bergoglio did to the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculata 10 years ago. He destroyed that order with the back of his hand.
Bergoglio fancies himself a player in the world stage, someone of influence who seeks like minded people on his pet issues and drones on causes far outside of what should be his purview.
Bergoglio apparently cares not about dwindling church attendance, the Vatican Bank problems, the lack of vocations, child abuse, abortion, or even Church teaching. He acts as if the Church is his own personal plaything…it brings to mind the Twilight Zone episode of the six year old boy who could make anything happen by willing it, and turning anyone he was annoyed at into a scarecrow in a cornfield.
Bergoglio is clearly unqualified for his job. He should never have been a cardinal or a bishop. He shows none of the mercy he used to blather about. At the same time the German bishops do whatever they want with no fear of repurcussion, the American bishops are terrified of him.
Putin has no respect for him. The Chinese laugh at him behind closed doors. Vigano publicly accused Bergoglio of covering up an abuse case in Argentina.
This papacy is a chastisement, and God permits the innocent to suffer with the guilty in times of chastisement.
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PF is the type who will burn his own house down if people don’t agree to play his way.