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PopeWatch: Nostalgic Disease

 

 

The Pope hates traditional Catholicism, which is anything prior to Vatican II.  What probably irked him most was the increasing number of young people drawn to it.

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MrsOpey
MrsOpey
Wednesday, May 10, AD 2023 4:25am

He is jealous and he knows exactly why it’s attractive and he hates it!
The youth see through the falsehoods of what secular society is pushing on them and they know it’s wrong. The problem is many Masses and much coming from PF sound same as secular!
He says, be patient, will reform those errant Bishops who allow liturgical abuses. Yeah. While he promotes and elevates same ones, sometimes worse.
Here we, parents, are saying they said same thing years ago and it’s gotten worse, not better. So we tell them to run to TLM!
All the while this absurd Synodial crap is supposed to be about listening to us.

Frank
Frank
Wednesday, May 10, AD 2023 6:45am

You summed it up perfectly, MrsO. I will take it one step further: If you believe what the Church taught for 2000 years prior to The Council™️, this Pope and his sycophants hate you and want you out of the Church.
Lord, Thy will be done, but how long must we endure this scandal?

Dale Price
Dale Price
Wednesday, May 10, AD 2023 6:54am

Yay, another stage-managed fervorino with friendly Jebbies.

Always remember that every critique of Catholics he loathes applies to him even more. The classic four-fingers-pointing-back syndrome.

To wit: a man enthralled by the modernist fantasies of the decade of disaster (1965-78) has no business talking about diseased nostalgia.

But I have to give him credit: he knows how to pull the levers of power and he’s doing so with a fixed ideological blueprint that he will never swerve from. None of this trying-to-carefully-pastor-a-polarized-and-wounded-flock for him.

Clinton
Clinton
Wednesday, May 10, AD 2023 8:39am

Let’s see if I’ve got this right: Francis is saying that wanting nothing more than the Faith of my fathers, the same faith that’s been ours for two thousand years, is a “nostalgic disease”. Instead, he would like us all to embrace the new faith he’s put together for us all, something so new and different that the old cannot even share the same planet with it. Trust him, it’ll be great!

Um, no thanks. I’m good.

MarkM
MarkM
Wednesday, May 10, AD 2023 8:47am

Yes, in the pope’s heart of hearts, he wants us out of the Church. He views us as diseased and dangerous, unworthy of his time.
It’s amazing how much space the TLM occupies in this pope’s mind.

Magdalene
Magdalene
Wednesday, May 10, AD 2023 9:30am

All that hatred and rancor is coming from the ‘false church’. It is under the patronage of the enemy.

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Hank
Wednesday, May 10, AD 2023 10:29am

Don

When Benedict XVI opened up use of the historic Mass, Some commenters I read were claiming that if the Bishops just took a neutral stand the new mass would atrophy and disappear in two generations. Sem ed a little dubious to me.

However, given the severity of his restrictions, does Francis agree with them that the new mass needs massive intervention to survive?

Just asking.

Hank
Wednesday, May 10, AD 2023 10:36am

Seemed

Tom Byrne
Tom Byrne
Wednesday, May 10, AD 2023 11:39am

Hank:
When someone swats furiously at a fly, scattering furniture and small items in his rampage he is rightly presumed to be (a) very afraid of the fly or (b) suffering from an irrational hatred of flies that has nothing to d with their real threat.

The Bruised Optimist
The Bruised Optimist
Wednesday, May 10, AD 2023 12:44pm

Perhaps all of his grotesque flailing is to prove that the pope can suppress a liturgy by fiat and without repercussion. As I often say about politics, what happens if the other side decides to do this?
NB: I am not for the forceful suppression of the NO Mass. I am for the suppression of heretical Masses of any stripe.

Art Deco
Art Deco
Wednesday, May 10, AD 2023 12:52pm

As I often say about politics, what happens if the other side decides to do this?

What happens when the priest corps starts ignoring their bishops?

The Bruised Optimist
The Bruised Optimist
Wednesday, May 10, AD 2023 2:03pm

Art – I don’t think we’ll see many good priests ignoring the bishops.
Most of the ignoring is done by priests we would not call good. The better priest understands that obedience is part of his vocation. Unfortunately, I suspect current formation does not encourage meaningful reflection as to whether that obedience has limits.

Art Deco
Art Deco
Wednesday, May 10, AD 2023 2:54pm

The better priest understands that obedience is part of his vocation.

You want to get out of that box car before it goes over the cliff. That’s where it is headed.

Mary De Voe
Thursday, May 11, AD 2023 12:53am

Pope Francis ought to have God fearing sovereign persons choose their own liturgy: the extrodinay form or the Vatican II form, whichever form inspires the love of God and family and neighbor.

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