Catholics throughout the ages have been persecuted by enemies of the Church. Our martyrs and champions in dire circumstances have written many pages of history of which all believing Catholics can be proud. What is new in this pontificate is the squalid war against believing Catholics being conducted by Pope Francis, our very abusive Holy Father. He is the enemy within and may Christ soon give us relief from his misrule of Mother Church.
It’s not simply that replacing a bad Pope will fix everything. Rather, the clergy itself must be purged of vacillating, well-nuanced priests and bishops expert at sophistry but cowardly at speaking the truth plainly.
The same is true nationally: we now have Trump as President-elect, but liberal elitists and aristocrats running government offices, universities and schools, and social and news media must be purged as well.
The wheat is being choked to death by the tares.
The behavior of bishops has been sufficiently odious for a sufficiently long time that their capacity to command anyone’s obedience is at an end.
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“The signs of meanness we see around us heighten our fear of ‘the other,’ the unknown, the marginalized, the foreigner,” and thus many migrants seeking a better life end up as recipients of this meanness, said Pope Francis in his recently released 2019 World Day of Migrants and Refugees message.“
Not just “meanness”, down right cruelty.
Disappointing to all who love the traditional latin mass. There is nothing in the letter to suggest that a non-diocesan site couldn’t be found to replace it, in addition to the one FSSP site. Not ideal. Hopefully they can adapt.
Usquequo, Domine?
Piss poor letter.
“I asked my boss and, due to the memo issued by my boss, after careful CYA-ing with my boss, I have the decision from the boss.”
We have the phone and the Internet. If this is what a leader of a diocese does to “lead” we don’t need a bishop – just Rome. If this is all a bishop does to lead, he can be replaced by the bureaucrats in the chancery office and a “bishop” flown in every two years for Confirmation.
Contrast this middle manager to today’s readings in which St Paul instructs Bishop Titus of Crete.
TBO – agree. Who told him to ask his boss…he could have continued as usual without having to “ask anyone”. Unless of course if asking his boss was intentional knowing he would received the response he did. If there are good priests there they will unify and schedule the weekly Latin Mass as usual as per status quo. Otherwise celebrate it in another nearby Parish…
“We stand with Bishop Strickland” large sign on a wooded stretch of the highway from Colonial Beach to Oak Grove Virginia.
Yyyyeeeeeeaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh, I get it.
I don’t like it, but I get it.
Traditionis was pretty clear; a typical diocesan parish needed to be dedicated to the Novus Ordo. Accordingly, a typical diocesan parish was not to have a traditional Mass also being offered. Where the cathedral of the diocese would obviously be a typical diocesan parish, the traditional Mass would not be allowed offered in the cathedral.
I don’t like it at all, Traditionis never struck me as being a…welcoming… document. Odd, given the Church’s intent to be welcoming these past 40 years. Yet Francis and his curia have rarely seen traditional norms in that light.
It could be worse. Looks like they intend for FSSP to keep on with another location in the same city. Beats being expelled, even if it’s rather a slap in the face this way.
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Bishop Vasquez is the Bishop of Austin, Appointed Apostolic Administrator of Tyler when Francis sacked Bishop Strickland. This past spring, Bishop Vasquez suppressed the TLMs at my then-parish, the cathedral of Austin.
We’d had the TLM at the cathedral since the reign of Pope John Paul II, and it had grown to two of the six scheduled Sunday Masses, packed, and accounting for 70% of the Sunday collection (!!!). The TLM community had also proved a fertile field for vocations for the diocese. And we’d supported our parish school, the K of C, parish pro-life work, etc.
Those Masses were packed and growing.
Like the people of Tyler, we had just a few weeks from the announcement until the suppression of our parish TLMs. However, in Austin, unfortunately, there is no FSSP parish to turn to. Traditiones Custodes demands that the TLM be driven from all parish churches, but even though the diocese has a substantial real estate portfolio, no non-parish church site was offered to host the displaced TLM parishioners.
At the cathedral, the two TLMs were replaced with two Novus Ordo Masses conducted in Latin. Perhaps some folks have found that an acceptable compromise. Myself, I’ve declined to “discover the richness of the Novus Ordo” as Bishop Vasquez urged us in his letter suppressing the TLMs. The precipitous drop in parish collections since the TLM suppression suggests I’m not alone in my decision. Instead, like so many of my fellow parishioners I find myself in a local hotel conference hall, attending a packed TLM celebrated by a visiting SSPX priest twice a month.
It’s been a sad, pointless act of self-mutilation for my (former) parish. I sympathize with the Tyler faithful. This is the very opposite of “pastoral”.
It’s bad enough that they do this, but the gratuitous falsehoods thrown in would be laughable if the actions weren’t so foul.
“Come back to the richness of the new mass, where you can experience everything about the older one–except for how it looks, sounds, reads and is celebrated, right down to the dates of the calendar. And we’re never going to give you Latin or ad orientem in our super-rich ordinary form, because we’re really pastoral. We think you’re weird and kinda creepy in your devotion to the antiquated form, but remember: all are welcome!”
-The TLM community had also proved a fertile field for vocations for the diocese.- Clinton
It is insane isn’t it?
We are asked to pray and sacrifice for an increase in vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
Then they wish to purposely turn off the spicket to a source of grace. Grace that is in effect an answer to our common prayers for vocations.
They do not put the fun in Dysfunctional, yet thats what our leaders are. If it was a business and you purposely sought to sabotage it’s success, some might question why on earth are you going to all the hard work in the first place? Without the priesthood there is no Christ. No Eucharist. No salvation.
The Tyler diocese has 17 seminarians.
May they be protected and flourish as they grow in their love for God. If, in three years, the prospects for recruits to the priesthood dwindle to less than five, you just might want to put up a Going Out of Business Sign near the Cathedral.
Jesus said to Mary; “Did you not know that I must be in My Father’s House attending to his affairs.”
Not a great idea to mess with Dad’s business, but hey…you wear the big hats.
This is worthy to be placed here as well.
If I’m wrong for thinking it then Donald might wish to take it off this thread.
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Thank you, Philip. As to LQC, replacing the Pope, as bad as he is, is only a beginning. The Bishops he has inflicted on the Church is an infection that may take generations to purge.
I do think it rather ironic: We learned in the military that we might be compelled to give our lives in service to our country. We incidentally learned we may be compelled to take the lives of others to serve that purpose. Before then, the Church had been telling us we ought do all we could to “reach out” to others.
So, military actions originally seek to kill people; the Church often intends to end the killing, if only incidentally. Yet, these past decades, the Church has seen fit to aim toward being casual in Her ceremony, …meanwhile military ceremonies usually have the expectation of… reverence and awe.
Thus the following has occurred: Many men with vocations oriented toward death seek ceremony which potentially honors scandalous men with precision and dignity. Meanwhile, many men with vocations oriented toward Truth … seek ceremony which honors Him as though He might join them for drinks at a bar.
Certainly this cognitive dissonance contributed to desire for Mass–and the Church–to be taken rather more seriously.
These poor bishops! (And yes, I say that condescendingly.) They seem to think that the old 1970’s way of bogus explanations will paper over the injustice and downright cruelty of their actions.
Case in point: “Discover the riches of the Novus Ordo.” What riches exactly? The numerous options? The ability to cut out large sections of the Passion because it goes on too long? The “rich” ceremonial of the blessing of the font on Easter Eve (i.e., sticking your hand in the water briefly)?
It’s better to just issue your Stalinistic diktat rather than add the Orwellian, and frankly creepy, bogus “justification” that no one takes seriously.
The truth is: the new generation (Gen Z), if they have any interest in religion, want a true and traditional Catholic faith and practice. I know this for a fact. I work with literally hundreds of them every week. They are not like the “Youth” (TM) of the 60’s and 70’s.
***The truth is: the new generation (Gen Z), if they have any interest in religion, want a true and traditional Catholic faith and practice.*** Fr. J
Our rual Church is filled at the 11am TLM. Filled with young families. 18 in the Altar Society. Seeing future priests serve at Mass, Cantor in Latin, Lector on occasion, fills one’s gizzy! 🤗
These young men are our future priests.
Ordo?
Boy and girl sit in while Father rushes through the consecration prayers as if he had $10,000 riding on the big game. I’m sorry. Every priest is Our Lady’s special son. God have mercy.