How Tradition-Hating Bishops Will Get Around The Motu Proprio
Don't say I didn't warn you
As we all are well aware, the rumors concerning the freeing of the Traditional Latin Mass are flying around faster that settlement checks from the various members of the USCCB.
If and when said motu proprio is ever made public, count on a fight the likes none of us have ever seen before.
Face it, many of the members of the USCCB are professional Modernists at worst.... uber-liberal Anglicans at best. As far as they're concerned, there simply was no Catholic Church before 1962. How sad that they fail to realize that the Second Vatican Council was simply a council, and not the council that they so desperately want it to be.
Didn't you get the memo? 33 to 1962 are more correctly known as "The Lost Years". They despise the very Church that made them bishops.
But anyhow, back to my main point. I'd be willing to bet that if and when a universal indult is granted, and supposedly "any priest can celebrate the TLM without permission from his bishop" is the meat and potatoes of the deal, there will be some sort of provision that will give any given bishop some type of loop-hole to suppress the Tridentine Mass.
It may be as innocent as a bishop saying something along the lines of "I will grant permission to participate in the universal indult as long as the individual priests can display to my satisfaction a correct understanding of the rubrics of the Mass of Pius V and a proficiency in Latin."
And of course, the bishop will pepper his pronouncement with flowery language about how he "desires to protect the integrity and dignity of the Traditional Latin Mass", etc, etc, blah, blah, blah.
And no one will ever meet the bishop's satisfaction. Ever. Even Pope St. Pius V would fail.
Now the Traddies may get a bone thrown to them every now and then, but for the most part, this is going to be nothing more than 1988's Ecclesia Dei, Part II. Mark my words.
With that said, let me say this -- Dear Lord, I hope I'm wrong.
Don't say I didn't warn you
As we all are well aware, the rumors concerning the freeing of the Traditional Latin Mass are flying around faster that settlement checks from the various members of the USCCB.
If and when said motu proprio is ever made public, count on a fight the likes none of us have ever seen before.
Face it, many of the members of the USCCB are professional Modernists at worst.... uber-liberal Anglicans at best. As far as they're concerned, there simply was no Catholic Church before 1962. How sad that they fail to realize that the Second Vatican Council was simply a council, and not the council that they so desperately want it to be.
Didn't you get the memo? 33 to 1962 are more correctly known as "The Lost Years". They despise the very Church that made them bishops.
But anyhow, back to my main point. I'd be willing to bet that if and when a universal indult is granted, and supposedly "any priest can celebrate the TLM without permission from his bishop" is the meat and potatoes of the deal, there will be some sort of provision that will give any given bishop some type of loop-hole to suppress the Tridentine Mass.
It may be as innocent as a bishop saying something along the lines of "I will grant permission to participate in the universal indult as long as the individual priests can display to my satisfaction a correct understanding of the rubrics of the Mass of Pius V and a proficiency in Latin."
And of course, the bishop will pepper his pronouncement with flowery language about how he "desires to protect the integrity and dignity of the Traditional Latin Mass", etc, etc, blah, blah, blah.
And no one will ever meet the bishop's satisfaction. Ever. Even Pope St. Pius V would fail.
Now the Traddies may get a bone thrown to them every now and then, but for the most part, this is going to be nothing more than 1988's Ecclesia Dei, Part II. Mark my words.
With that said, let me say this -- Dear Lord, I hope I'm wrong.
posted by Kevin Whiteman at
6:44 PM
1 Comments:
I went to FSSP church in Chaput's diocese - and even that was sometimes full of controversy! And we had his full support, he attended once in a while for confirmations, etc.
I think the bishops are afraid of us "Traddies", because we tend to be well catechized (after all, you really have to try to attend Latin Mass), have lots of kids so we'll outnumber the modernists soon, and generally stand up to the them (and usually have a canonical leg to stand on when we do).
Our parish started off in a school room - within 5 years we had 3 Sunday Masses, with a High Mass every week that was standing room only, and 2 full time priests. Our church was not a tiny chapel, either, but a converted Episcopal church.
Now they've opened another one in a nearby town for the "overflow".
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