Unless Pope Leo wishes to be Francis II, he must end this squalid war initiated by his predecessor against traditional Catholics.
The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
- 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.
I doubt it. The Lavender mafia is threatened by TLM.
Hmmm, he won’t. But I pray each night for him, that he will do the right thing.
Too much power with the Bishops.
Sean is correct. In responding to a question about this, Pope Leo XIV said that people can celebrate the Novus Ordo in Latin. He deliberately missed the point of celebrating using the ancient rite. It isn’t about Latin per se, but about the whole substance of the Traditional Mass and how its liturgy, its prayers, etc., are pointed towards Heaven instead of Earth, and oriented towards God instead of man.This is to be expected of any cleric who embraces environmentalism, calls Earth our home instead of Heaven, and proposes that the KIngdom of God can be created on Earth if only we have enough social justice, illegal immigration, and just the right environmentalist policies and programs. More post Vatican II heresy and nonsense.
“……are pointed towards Heaven instead of Earth, and oriented towards God instead of man.”
Amen.
That’s one of my reasonings as well.
It’s not about what man has or is doing for God.
It’s what He did and is doing for mankind.
“How Great Are YOUR works!”
My biggest concern is the missed opportunities for young men to be surrounded by other young men serving God together. Growing in faith together. Learning Latin together. Singing the responses together as young men. Open for God’s call to the priesthood.
By all common sense, don’t hinder God’s call by cancelling HIS TLM.
(rant over)
It just might take the spaghetti monster to wipe out the lavender Mafia. If that doesn’t work, Godzilla to the rescue.
Nothing yet?
We have no other choice….
The nuclear option;
Chuck Schumer.
Ok, my statement earlier needs further explanation:
“Most traditional Catholics fail to realize the threat they are perceived to pose to closeted homosexual bishops and priests. If one were to take a poll of Catholics from the TLM and NO communities, one would probably discover that TLM Catholics, many with large families, are less inclined than NO Catholics to support pro-LGBTQ Vatican documents like Fiducia Supplicans (involving the blessing of same-sex couples), and are far more supportive of official Catholic Church teachings on issues like gender ideology, gender dysphoria, homosexuality, conversion therapy, and abortion. Even though there are priests who celebrate the TLM who have been caught engaging in homosexual acts, TLM priests tend to be heterosexual, pro-life, and pro-family; three qualities often not found in many NO priests today. Unfortunately, even if Pope Leo XIV were to abrogate Traditionis Custodes, or if he were to create a separate Roman Rite like the 23 autonomous Eastern Rite Churches serving 1.3 billion Catholic Christians in communion with Rome, I maintain that the hemorrhage of Catholics would continue as happened during the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century.”
https://johneighteenthirtyseven.substack.com/p/roman-catholicism-is-dying
The Author is correct. Point of fact.. I have found a reverent NO Mass and presently don’t attend TLM mainly because of the distance- I have no iron in the fire per se… but recognize truth.
The misconduct of the bishops from the Bishop of Rome on down has worked to damage the capacity of bishops to induce obedience or even command more than perfunctory attention.
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It seems to me a certain contemporary thinker whose name escapes me had a persuasive account of why it was that the worst people seem to rise in any organization. That certainly applies to the episcopacy today.
“worst people seem to rise in any organization.”
They don’t play by the rules of decency and integrity. The end always justifies the means. The moral man doesn’t give away his dignity for an end goal. It’s unfair. Yet God is a just God.
Not likely. Leo appears to be a man of the status quo. The idea that inaction begets stability is open to debate.
AD, were you thinking of the “Peter Principle?” (by Laurence J. Peter)
here’s a quote from Comet, the AI browser for Perplexity:
As Dr. Kurland pointed out to Art Deco, the Peter Principle at work in the Institutional Church. But also so is Dr. Jerry Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy:
Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people”:
The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.
Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.
The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.
The late Robert Conquest nailed it.
At some point Bishops like this may feel the only weapon available to those they choose to ignore may be the power of the purse.
What a monster of a bishop.
AD, were you thinking of the “Peter Principle?” (by Laurence J. Peter)
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No. “The Peter Principle” was an amusing exercise and may explain spot phenomena, but it does not explain organizational pathology generally. (It was a humor book, so it wasn’t meant to). It’s not true, for example, that someone will continue to be promoted until his incompetence is manifest. Organizations are pyramidal and nearly everyone stalls out at some stratum. It would have to be the case that at some stratum every possible candidate for the position would be incompetent to fill it. Pournelle’s law is more persuasive, but has deficiencies as well. Please note that while you have economic regression, as a generally rule worker productivity improves annually. Would you see that if organizations were in a continuous state of decay due to the Peter Principle or Pournelle’s ‘Iron Law’? I suppose you could argue one or the other was valid for public bureaucracies or philanthropic organizations.
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I tend to be repelled by people who invoke Pournelle’s law or Public Choice theory because they feed an unfortunate tendency in starboard discussion – an inclination to bit*h and strike poses and not ask how organizations and procedures might be repaired. Cops and public works employees are a necessary component of daily life; some tut-tutting faculty member in the George Mason economics department is expendable.
The notion of the bishop as god-king of the liturgy is the natural extension of Rome’s centralizing tendency and vesting of the Pope with power never seen in the first millennium. Namely, the ability to recast and tinker with the liturgy at will.
And yes, that includes Trent. Suppressing all but four valid alternate western rites turned into a preview of coming attraction for the Roman Rite itself. And now the bishop can suppress the parts of the new Roman Rite that offend him in his own demesne, too.
Completely alien to the tradition of the Church of the first millennium, but here we are. And I have no idea how this can be fixed. This train has no brakes.