++Gänswein: "I believe it broke Pope Benedict's heart to read [Traditionis custodes]... To take this treasure [of the old Mass] away from people - well, I can't say I'm comfortable with that."
(source: )
So, look what I turned up during my archive trip... the "Agatha Christie" indult, signed by Bugnini & stamped with the SCDW seal!
(your reminder that, last August, Archbishop Roche claimed the Congregation had searched their own archives and couldn't find this 🙄)
I converted to Catholicism in 2008, and Papa Ratzinger's writings were one of my formative influences. I have *so* much to thank him for, as does the whole Church. Pray for Benedict XVI.
Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei.
Requiescat in pace. Amen. 😢
"People ask, "Did you hear what the Pope said yesterday?" I reply: "No, and don’t tell me"... I suspect much of the Church is doing the same. We’ve entered a kind of internal catacomb, hiding away, waiting for the pontificate to end."
(1/3) when you're doing some reading and discover that Pre-Lent was suppressed after Vatican II partly because liturgists thought *the names of its Sundays* (Septuagesima, Sexagesima, Quinquagesima) were too difficult for the faithful to understand
Really excellent stuff from Fr Leon Pereira, O.P., on the
#synod
and the
#ListeningChurch
: "It is the grievous failure to be authentically pastoral and genuinely loving."
A trip up to the York Oratory today for the traditional Mass – full of young and old, rich and poor, educated and simple, and people of all races and backgrounds! Deo gratias!
Is it surprising to anyone that both the Epistle and the Gospel for today in the traditional Roman Rite, the 7th Sunday after Pentecost, are no longer read at Sunday Mass in the Novus Ordo?
Cardinal Sarah: "Is it not true that prohibiting or suspecting the extraordinary form can only be inspired by the demon who desires our suffocation and spiritual death?" ()
Today we have what is perhaps the most egregious optional short form of a reading in the Novus Ordo: the parable of the talents, but where we only hear about the fate of the man with 10 talents. 😬
Ratzinger, 40 yrs ago: "Is it not really strange that we have never heard bishops react as strongly against distortions in the heart of the liturgy as they react today against the use of a Missal of the Church that, after all, has been in existence since the time of Pius V?"
Could I ask
#CatholicTwitter
to pray for my father?
He's just been diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, and will start chemotherapy in the next few weeks – prognosis is apparently good, but it'll likely be a rough few months ahead. Prayers very much appreciated – God bless you. 🙏
Excellent interview from ++Gądecki, on the
#Synod
:
"Some participants managed to talk three or four times. I, oddly enough, was not so lucky. We were encouraged to send positions to the secretariat, but no one seems to have read them so far..." (cont.)
Paul VI once compared Septuagesima, Lent, Holy Week & Triduum to the ringing of bells an hour, half-hour, 15, and 5 minutes before Mass: a psychological, material & spiritual preparation of the faithful for the liturgy.
And then his reformed calendar abolished Septuagesima. 🤦
Bishops of Ukraine: "We see danger in ambiguous wording that causes differences of opinion among the faithful. What is missing... is that the Gospel calls sinners to conversion: without a call to abandon the sinful life of homosexual couples, the blessing can look like approval."
@lpoolcatholic
My favourite memories are when he mercifully called us all "rigid", "backwardist", "indietrist", "self-absorbed neo-Pelagians", and then pastorally kicked us out of our parish churches for the synodal crime of loving the traditional Latin Mass. ¡Hagan lío!
#Francisat10
Your reminder that the Archbishop Emeritus of Bordeaux, Jean-Pierre Ricard, is still a Cardinal and, until 26 September 2024, is eligible to vote in a papal conclave, nearly a year since he himself admitted to sexually abusing a 14 year-old girl. Priorities, I guess.
Pope Francis met Saturday with Cardinals-elect Christophe Pierre and Robert Prevost to discuss requesting the resignation of Bishop Strickland of Tyler.
I notice this morning Arthur Cardinal Roche is embarrassing himself again, this time on BBC Radio 4...
"You know, the theology of the Church has changed..." – well, it hasn't, but do go on showing that the hermeneutic of rupture is now in full swing at the DDW, Your Eminence. 🤦
No, Monsignor. Socialising is what tea & coffee after Mass is for. And please can it be voluntary & authentic rather than forced & fabricated? Introverts also attend Mass, & we're sick of "active participation" being defined by & for extroverts!
(pic: letter, this week's Tablet)
This week, the Archbishop of Berlin permitted his clergy to give blessings to homosexual couples, contrary to the magisterium of the Church, most recently expressed in 2021 by the DDF.
But it's Prof Scott Hahn that's the problem for saying he appreciates an episcopal letter. 🤷
Many of us have admired Scott Hahn for many years, and he has been instrumental in deepening our faith. This is why his public endorsement of a bishop who once promoted a video describing Pope Francis as a “diabolically-disoriented clown” is tragic.
If only the Church could let us know when Lent was approaching every year, perhaps 3 Sundays in advance, with a special, short season in her calendar and small but visible differences in her liturgy... That would be useful, wouldn't it?
The same generation who wreckovated thousands of churches and sanctuaries based on fashionable but incredibly dodgy theories of liturgical history and theology are now very upset when the youth undo all their hard work. Difficult to have much sympathy, frankly.
St. Elizabeth of Hungary's altar was built by a priest and once used by a cardinal who's on the path to canonization. It's now dismantled and damaged, after the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest came to the Cleveland parish.
"I demand Scott Hahn comes clean about his position on the Pope!"
(two days later)
"HOW DARE HE COME CLEAN ABOUT HIS POSITION ON THE POPE!"
The hyperüberultramontanist inquisitor show trials on full display. Shameful, but sadly unsurprising.
Highlights of what young people want:
- "do not forbid the Tridentine Mass"
- "a return to orthodoxy and tradition"
- "priests dedicated to their vocation"
- "that Catholics who find spiritual fulfilment in the TLM may be accepted and allowed to attend the Mass of their choice"
🙏🌍 Young People's Prayers for the synod and the Church at the World Youth day
#Lisbon2023
:
🕊️ Embracing Tradition and Renewal,
🌿 Rooted in the Gospel and Christ-centered,
🌏 Reaching Out to the World.
#YouthSynod
#WYD2023
#FaithJourney
#synod
What is truly absurd is that the Vatican freely chose to reignite the "liturgical wars", at the same time as claiming to want a more
#synodal
, listening, merciful Church. 🤦
the absurd situation is that while the USA and Russia are moving towards the brink of nuclear war, the Vatican has to deal with liturgical wars within the Catholic Church
Yes, Jordan Peterson is a controversial figure to some, but I think he's broadly correct here in his assessment of the post-Vatican II ecclesial drift (from
@EWTN
- full video at ).
Der bekannte Psychologe Jordan Peterson hat seine Sicht auf das Heilungswunder seiner Frau Tammy vertieft die Neuausrichtung der Kirche nach dem Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzil kritisiert. HIER LESEN ⬇
Says a lot, perhaps, that the man who has now appointed three-quarters of the College of Cardinals is apparently so afraid the next Pope will immediately abandon his initiatives that he is willing to do almost anything to stack the deck to ensure a Francis II.
The CDWDS says that the Pontificale Romanum of the usus antiquior can't be used to celebrate the Sacrament of Confirmation anymore?
Well, good job I found this in an appendix at the back of the 1962 Missale Romanum, then! 😉
Deeply scandalous: the President of the Pontifical Academy for Life is openly in favour of the introduction of laws permitting euthanasia: such laws, he says, "cannot be excluded" & "can constitute the greatest common good that is concretely possible" in modern society. 😡
JUST IN:
#PopeFrancis
has relieved Bishop Joseph E. Strickland from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Tyler (U.S.A.) & appointed Bishop Joe Vásquez of Austin, as Apostolic Administrator of the vacated diocese,
@HolySeePress
announced today.
Satanic. There is no other word for this vile, horrifying abuse.
Why on earth has Fr Rupnik not been laicised? Why is the DDF obdurate in its refusal to derogate from the statute of limitations in this case?
(Italian source: )
+Eleganti: "As an altar boy, I experienced how brutally and excessively a liturgical reform was enforced that was neither intended by the Council Fathers nor can be inferred from the texts."
Truly horrific words from +Bonny (Antwerp, Belgium): "I regret that, from the Vatican, the CDF affirms that euthanasia is always an intrinsic evil, whatever the circumstance. This is too simple an answer that leaves no room for discernment."
Conclave prediction is a fool's game, but 2 thoughts:
1) the chances of Card Fernández (or anyone strongly associated with Francis) becoming Francis II are now nearly zero, b/c
2) the size of any anti-Francis II voting block has been dramatically increased by «Fiducia supplicans»
A reminder to everyone that those most keen on rigidly enforcing «Traditionis custodes» are also coming for reverent Novus Ordo Masses, because these celebrations of the post-Vatican II liturgy clearly "reject" the post-Vatican II liturgical reforms. Yes, I know. 🤷🤦
A reminder to everyone confused by this
@USCCB
choice of photo that (a) you don’t need to reject the liturgical reform of Vatican II to use NFP and (b) Pope Francis, quoted here, has made clear his intention to restore the unity of the Roman rite.
Card. Heenan (Westminster), replying to one of his flock who wrote to him about the liturgical reforms in Feb 1969:
"This was a great test of loyalty to the Holy See. It is idle to blame the hierarchy of this or any other country for what is happening. We have to obey."
😳
What does that make many of the post-Vatican II liturgical reformers, then, who—at great expense & on a scale difficult to comprehend today—demolished high altars, ripped out communion rails & whitewashed sanctuaries in their ideological pursuit of a new liturgy for "modern man"?
Yeeeeaaahhh... the Church still dogmatically teaches that virginity/celibacy is better than marriage, and contrary to your deficient understanding of the "development" of doctrine, Pope Francis hasn't changed this, and he can't change this. Sorry.
2 weeks ago this blew up on
#CatholicTwitter
Many folks were upset by the idea that the pope developed this teaching. Teaching can’t change, can it?
To follow that episode up, here's a discussion about the development of doctrine:
I have found far more "interior freedom" in the traditional Roman Rite than I ever did in its post-Vatican II reform. And, as a member of the "younger generation" (just about!), I'm far from alone in this!
The Pope continues: "Perhaps some people are used to this [rigidity], but many others, especially the younger generations, are not attracted to by a faith that leaves no interior freedom, by a Church in which all are supposed to think alike and blindly obey"
#PopeInSlovakia
Nice to see Cardinal McElroy continuing to sing the new,
#synodal
, welcoming Church into being by... <checks notes> banning homeschool groups from using parish spaces and facilities in the Diocese of San Diego, effective immediately. ¡Todos, todos, todos! (Am I doing this right?)
“Parish run schools and religious education programs are the primary means by which the Church accomplishes its teaching mission for children and young people.”
I can be a little more specific now:
My wife, Lucy, was admitted to hospital this afternoon, and will be there for a couple of days at least.
Continued prayers and intercession from
#CatholicTwitter
very much appreciated. Many thanks to you all. 🙏
Just one more "unique expression of the «lex orandi» of the Roman Rite", brought to you by the parish of St. Martin Illnau-Effretikon/Lindau/Brütten (), in the Diocese of Chur, Switzerland...
Good news – no future sledgehammering required! Following protests from the faithful, the Archdiocese of Seville has announced that this execrable altar will be removed from Santa Clara! Hooray! 🥳
Just in case you thought we might be leaving repulsive church architecture behind: an absolutely hideous altar, installed last week at the Church of Santa Clara, Seville (Spain). 🤮🤮🤮
The only positive is that, when the time comes, it looks easily sledgehammerable.
He really, really hates us.
His constant, petty, degrading, belittling insults... It's exhausting, and depressing.
It breaks my heart that the Pope can be so mean-spirited and cruel. 😢
Pope Francis at Mass for the World Day of the Poor:”We need to overcome our self-absorption, our interior rigidity, which is a temptation of today’s restorationists, who want an ordered, all rigid, Church. This is not the Holy Spirit. We need to overcome this.”
How can any diocese need *9* bishops? (And the emeriti take the total to 13!)
Fewer priests, fewer parishes, fewer baptisms, fewer marriages, lower and lower Mass attendance... but more bishops?
Pope Francis has appointed 3 new Auxiliary Bishops to Chicago, bringing the total number to 8. Among the new crop is Fr Kevin Birmingham, long time secretary to Cardinal Cupich, and Fr Robert Lombardo, the first ever Franciscan Friars of the Renewal to be raised to the Episcopacy
"Where not long ago the Vatican was notorious for its haughty manner, its centralism and its authoritarianism, there is now a climate of service and of freedom."
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Loophole: just keep two or more copies of the 1962 Missal Romanum in the sacristy, so a priest doesn't have to use the same one for multiple Masses on a given day. 🙃
Your reminder that, not satisfied with trying to obliterate the traditional Roman Rite, the liturgical vandals also have "reverent Novus Ordos" and the "reform of the reform" in their sights...
Your reminder that Rembert Weakland, who shredded reports of clergy sex abuse & embezzled money from his diocese to pay off his gay lover, was a consultor then full member of the «Consilium ad exsequendam», the body responsible for the post-Vatican II reform of the liturgy.
"A few months ago, from his place of retirement at the Mater Ecclesiæ monastery in the Vatican, [Benedict XVI] sent a private letter of encouragement to the Superior of the Fraternity of Saint Peter following the Motu Proprio «Traditionis Custodes»."
The digitisation of the «Acta» of Vatican II is finally complete! 🥳
All the links are in the NLM post – if you want to find out what the Council *really* said, then all the primary sources are now at your fingertips!
- "How incredibly rude of journalists not to talk to me before writing about me and my very important role as
#synod
expert and facilitator!"
- "Well, how about an interview, then?"
- "Yeah actually you need to go through multiple levels of bureaucracy to interview me lolz"
Pope Francis may have closed the door on ordaining female deacons during his pontificate, but Catholic women — and the communities in which we serve — hold out hope for the grace of the diaconate.
Rupnik's art – which, btw, is intrinsically linked with his sexual abuse (see ) – communicates grace, according to Dr Ivereigh, in the same way the Sacraments do.
Repulsive and sacrilegious.
Sacraments are ex opere operato; why not a great religious artist’s work? Rupnick stays on my wall; I don’t approve of what he has done, but his are works of grace, and I don’t want to reject grace. (Shocked that God makes use of sinners? Try the gospels.)
The Coptic Orthodox Church have "decided to suspend the theological dialogue with the Catholic Church, reevaluate the results achieved by the dialogue from its beginning 20 yrs ago, & establish new standards & mechanisms for the dialogue to proceed in the future." 😳
Cardinal Müller on the Roche Rescript: "pastorally self-defeating... a frightful example of theological incompetence... degrades bishops & local ordinaries... harms the pastoral responsibility of the episcopate & obscures the true meaning of the papacy."
It's not that the Novus Ordo isn't "good enough", Father. It's that some of us want more than merely "good enough", and have found in the traditional Roman Rite a pearl of great price, for which we rejoice in sacrificing all we have to obtain, in the spirit of SC 10.
"And I think that we're living in an era that you young people are gonna look back on and see as a golden age in the life of the Church." (Cardinal Cupich, 19 Jul 2022)
😬
"neurotic, traditionalist converts" - oh, you mean like the bishops of Malawi, Zambia, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Poland, etc...?
We already know you hate converts to the Catholic faith, Dr Ivereigh, but come now, be reasonable...!
The cross of my generation of Catholics are the neurotic, traditionalist converts who confuse fidelity to the Gospel with a desire for relevance. When Jesus affirmed the worth of people, whatever their state of sin, and gave them space to grow, was he trying to be hip and modern?
"Fewer than 2% of the baptized go to Mass every Sunday [in France]. Among those, a quarter of the practicing faithful under 40 years of age have joined the traditional rite communities."
I've had the privilege of meeting His Eminence numerous times over the last 7 years or so, and he is one of the most gentle, pastoral and holy bishops I know. He is a true servant of Holy Mother Church.
@CatholicProg
Two candlesticks (left and right) are enough.
All the other five are not needed.
And the middle one is ABSOLUTELY UNWARRANTED:
It even hides the main elements for the Eucharist.
Whoever came up with that STUPID idea?
Your regular reminder that the censoring of the psalms in the Liturgy of the Hours goes 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 what the Fathers of Vatican II were explicitly told art. 91 of «Sacrosanctum Consilium» meant before they voted on it:
Resurréxi, et adhuc tecum sum, allelúia: posuísti super me manum tuam, allelúia: mirábilis facta est sciéntia tua, allelúia, allelúia.
A very happy Easter to all! 🥳
In which the nuncio to the USA — now also a cardinal — (a) judgmentally speculates about the intentions of "young priests" and "young people" because (b) he doesn't care to actually find out why they love the traditional liturgy since he clearly detests them.
Cardinal Pierre on why the U.S. bishops are struggling to connect with Pope Francis
“We can't say there are bishops who are on the left and ones that are on the right. This is a false analysis,” said Cardinal Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States
Nice to know that we trads are only "technically" part of the Church... 🤡
Remind me: who's rejecting the "ecclesiology of the institutional Church" here?
In the Catholic Church I think we need an honest conversation about why so many of our old people are drawn to what looks like a Church imaginary from the 1970s, spirit of Vatican II etc. It’s a genuine question, as they say, and it’s a real phenomenon
#CatholicTwitter
"Experts" cited in this article about Aquinas:
✅ queer theologian
✅ "gender-affirming" Franciscan friar
✅ Lutheran pastor who writes about white Christian nationalism
✅ moral theologian who argues for same-sex marriage
✅ graphic designer
❌ any member of the Dominicans
🤔
Aquinas has become an icon for conservative Catholics. In some circles, the "Angelic Doctor" is equated with traditionalism and black-and-white thinking. But,
@HeidiSchlumpf
asks, are his biggest fans misrepresenting his legacy?
(1/9) Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. Of course, had it been left entirely up to the Consilium, Ash Wednesday and the days following would have been abolished, with Lent beginning on the 1st Sunday: see Bugnini, "Reform of the Liturgy", p. 307 (pic).
I repeat my question from yesterday: What on earth is going on at the Pontifical Academy for Life?
The Church's teaching on contraception in «Humanae vitae» is part of her ordinary magisterium. Definitions of infallibility «ex cathedra» are a total red herring here.
I'll note that if it is permissible to think the Novus Ordo is a "better or truer expression of faith" than what preceded it—an argument often made by defenders of the post-Vatican II liturgical reforms—then it is also permissible to think that the TLM is better than the NO.
Some Catholics began to perpetuate the idea that the Tridentine Mass is a better or truer expression of faith. These “liturgy wars" caused dissension and disruption, so Pope Francis followed Benedict XVI’s apostolic letter with "Traditionis Custodes."