PopeWatch: Nostalgic Disease
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
All that hatred and rancor is coming from the ‘false church’. It is under the patronage of the enemy.
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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.
Seemed
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.
However, given the severity of his restrictions, does Francis agree with them that the new mass needs massive intervention to survive?
I think that is his fear Hank.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.