Good Sign
- 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.
The photo I saw yesterday showed an altar against a wall so he had no choice which way he faced.
For me the positive is that he knew how the chapel was arranged yet still made that a place where he would say Mass.
https://cforc.com/2025/07/pope-leo-celebrates-mass-ad-orientem-and-many-see-it-as-a-sign-of-hope/
JFK, who knows, maybe he chose that altar For sure someone did and the demon Vaticanistas did not countermand the choice. Guy, texas
All Pope Leo XIV has to do is to stay orthodox. God’s truth will save us all.
I hope the Catholics of Charlotte and Detroit are sending this picture to their bishops…
Our good Pope Leo is a blessing to me. There is no doubt in my mind that he will rank among the great popes of the Church, along with St. John Paul and Pope Benedict XVI (who I hope, one day, is proclaimed a Doctor of the Church.)
Whether Pope Leo celebrates Mass Novus Ordo or TLM, he is reverent and fully aware of exactly what he is doing and Who we worship, and the honor that is given to God. He knows the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass – whether it is TLM, Novus Ordo, or any of the Eastern Rite Divine Liturgies – is fully holy, licit, and sacred and deserving of the respect of *all* Catholics.
I think if anyone can fully unite us as Catholics, it is Pope Leo. God bless and protect him.
It was four years ago today that <Traditiones Custodes was issued. It’s been four years too long, and here’s hoping that our new Pope will rescind that gross injustice. I’m hoping that the Holy Father’s choices are signaling that he wants to end the disgraceful episode of the last four years.
I do pray for Pope Leo. He is not of the same cloth as Bregoglio.
His silence on TC or the restrictions imposed by TC is disturbing.
By the end of the summer, hopefully,
Hopefully, he will also de-emphasize “concelebration,” which is a complete anachronism to Catholic liturgical history and the history of Mass.
He is just following the rubrics; anything meritorious about that? When he pulls out a 1962 or earlier Missal we can take keen note. Good example he gave but much more can be done. Unifyingly.
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Forgive me for being a nay sayer, however, it is one thing to be photographed doing a traditional thing in appeasement of traditionalists, and it is anotehr to actually clean up the Vatican bureaucracy, rein in homoerotic clergy, muzzle priests like Father John Martin, reverse Traditionis Custodes, and fix the abuses of Novus Ordo and Vatican II.
LQC has a point!
Francis ad orientem
Give the Pope at least a year before complaining.
“Give the Pope at least a year before complaining.”
Why?
Would you need a year to decide to keep a (credibly accused, investigated and excommunicated) serial rapist away from nuns?
LQC has a perfectly valid point. Everyone keeps clamoring about Traditionis Custodes all while Amoris Laetitia and Feducia Supplicans remains the law of the land, Chairman Xi imposes new Bishops and arrests faithful ones (with the Pope’s blessing) … and the heretical synodal catholic reboot marches on.
Lots of people saying “give him time” … Nobody giving a good reason why we should.
Why?
For the same reason that Christ took three years to establish His Church. The Church went through a very bad patch with Francis, and Francis was not acting alone. I think the Pope deserves at least a year to find his footing and to develop his plans. Assuming the worst in regard to him is the counsel of despair.