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Catholics react to Pope Francis’ sweeping restrictions on extraordinary form Masses

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A girl with a chapel veil at the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage Mass in Rome on Oct. 25, 2014. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.

Vatican City, Jul 16, 2021 / 08:31 am (CNA).

New Vatican restrictions on extraordinary form Masses elicited passionate responses from Catholics nearly as soon as the motu proprio was published shortly after noon Rome time on Friday.

Many Catholics reacted strongly to the promulgation of Traditionis custodes, a motu proprio signed by Pope Francis on July 16, offering pithy comments on Twitter as well as more detailed takes.

In the motu proprio, the pope made sweeping changes to his predecessor Benedict XVI’s 2007 apostolic letter Summorum Pontificum, which acknowledged the right of all priests to say Mass using the Roman Missal of 1962, which is in Latin.

The new document is dedicated to “the use of the Roman Liturgy prior to the reform of 1970” and contains eight articles that go into immediate effect.

In an accompanying letter to bishops, Pope Francis wrote: “In defense of the unity of the Body of Christ, I am constrained to revoke the faculty granted by my Predecessors. The distorted use that has been made of this faculty is contrary to the intentions that led to granting the freedom to celebrate the Mass with the Missale Romanum [Roman Missal] of 1962.”

Joseph Shaw, the chairman of the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales, told CNA that the motu proprio appeared to “undo entirely the legal provisions made for the Traditional Mass by Pope Benedict, and to take us back not only to the situation before the 2007 apostolic letter Summorum Pontificum, but even before 1988, when Pope John Paul II — who was canonized by Pope Francis — described the more ancient Mass as a ‘rightful aspiration’ of the faithful.”

“The many priests and lay Catholics who have worked hard to combine an interest in the ‘riches’ represented by the EF [Extraordinary Form] with sincere loyalty and affection for the hierarchy and the Holy Father have been let down by this document,” Shaw said.

He added: “The provision that the EF not be celebrated in parish churches appears to be unworkable, and will certainly impede the implementation of this document.”

Kurt Martens, a professor of canon law at Catholic University of America, noted that the term “extraordinary form” is no longer used in the new legislation and that the new motu proprio “establishes that liturgical books promulgated in conformity with the decrees of Vatican Council II are the unique expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite.”

“Diocesan bishops are given broad responsibility with regard to the use of the former liturgy,” Martens noted on Twitter.

Some Catholic blogs that promote traditional liturgy expressed anger at the changes.

“It’s war,” Rorate Caeli posted to Twitter immediately after the motu proprio’s promulgation.

Others had even stronger views.

“Satanic,” Catholic writer Michael Brendan Dougherty wrote following the publication of the motu proprio.

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat commented: “Accompaniment for some, slow strangulation of their rites for others.”

Others called for prayers for the 84-year-old pope, who was discharged from hospital this week following colon surgery.

Writing on the New Liturgical Movement website, Gregory DiPippo said: “We must redouble our prayers for Pope Francis, whose whole papacy, every smile, every hug of a disabled person, every exhortation to mercy, will be stained for the rest of history by this unprecedented and absolutely gratuitous act of pastoral cruelty, the attempted revocation of Summorum Pontificum.”

Meanwhile, some Catholics expressed alarm at the tone of the motu proprio’s critics.

“Seeing a lot of so-called ‘faithful Catholics’ complaining that ‘Bergoglio’ has killed the Church. You’re part of the problem and the reason some bishops are so concerned,” Fr. Luke Wilkinson wrote on Twitter.

“Pray and respectfully request your bishop to be generous. Conspiratorial calumny is the last thing we need.”


Source: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/248394/draft-catholics-react-to-pope-francis-sweeping-restrictions-on-extraordinary-form-masses


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    • Daughter of the Church

      “But she saw that yet the holy Sacrifice would not cease: it would be offered in caves, in tunnels, in barns and in alcoves.’” This part of the Prophecy of La Salette is now fulfilled. Since the holy Sacrifice is definitively banned from the regular church of all dioceses, the remnant faithful will return to what used to be the catacombs.

    • Daughter of the Church

      A second comment!
      Monsignor Josef Ratzinger was an antipope, the fifth of an uninterrupted series of six antipopes since October 1958, and Mister Bergoglio is the sixth one (of this series of usurpers). Antipope Benedict XVI (Ratzinger) feign being a “conservative”, while he has been a radical pro-Vatican II reformer since the beginning of his career in the clergy. Antipope B16′s “resignation” was planned, staged and craftily executed in order to fool “even the elects” of a fake coup d’état. This fake “resignation” appearing as a take-over by progressists is the work of a diabolical tag-team act in order to further divide the Catholic faithful.
      Now Mister Bergoglio aka “Pope” Francis, after taking the relay in the course towards the total destruction of the Church will rally the traditionalists into the lost cause that “Benedict XVI is still the Pope”. This is a deadly charade that seem to leads everyone into the fruitless squabble between the “party in control versus the controlled opposition”. Please, brothers, consider that Satan has an IQ vastly superior to anyone of us men. Let’s say Satan’s IQ be of 66 times 666. Satan’s knows all the prophecies, and in particular the one of La Salette which spoke of the “two popes”. Satan plays on this mysterious prophecy to his advantage.
      In truth, the “Two Popes” spoken in the (La Salette) Prophecy are Popes Gregory XVII & XVIII, who have and is (currently) ignored. Those are the “two worm filled…

      • Daughter of the Church

        - – - let’s finish this “second comment”- – -

        In truth, the “Two Popes” spoken in the (La Salette) Prophecy are Popes Gregory XVII & XVIII, who have and is (currently) ignored. Those are the “two worm filled popes”. “Worm filled” not because they are rotten to the core, but “worm filled” as still useful pieces of furniture, but being left out in the attic and forgotten. This typing hand is a native French and understands the nuance through the words of the Blessed Virgin Mary when She address to Mélanie Calva in Patois -a dialect. Mélanie Calva later learned French while also learning own to read and write. The words may have been honestly translated literally into the English (by Cannon Hess for example), but its inexact meaning have been exploited by the Clever and Malicious one.
        As for the Tridentine Mass being dropped, let’s consider it to be a canard. The “Extraordinary Tridentine Mass” of Benedict was partially valid anyway, because it remain in union with antipopes. Please remember the “Te Igitur prayer” …. una cum famulo tuo Papa nostro ??? … with the (???) being falsely “Francisco” as opposed to the rightly “Gregorio duodevissicima”.

        • Daughter of the Church

          In addition!
          Please forgive this extra addition to the comment above. It is very important to the demonstration above. May the lone reader take the time to read the said “addition.”

          There is a line into the prophecy of La Salette that has been misinterpreted, and more so, this said line has recently been blotted-out from the new “official” text of the Prophecy, because it would be too dangerous to the usurpers popes who could then be clearly identified. The said line (in French) are “LES DEUX PAPES VERMOULUS”. What was the translation into the English? “The two worm-filled popes”. This translation may be technically correct, but it is not really the right translation, because the word “vermoulu” relates to wood. In French when mentioning this word, one relates immediately to a piece of furniture such as a dresser, a table, a chair which, after a time of neglect was attacked by worms. The said “vermoulu” pieces of furniture are, through this special word, always considered to be restaurable. An antique dresser is usually “vermoulu” but has not lost of its usefulness, as opposed to the use of the word “pourri” (meaning rotten) for example.
          Our Lady of La Salette being the Blessed Virgin Mary, is also the Queen of Prophets. In Her message, She did not contradict Her servant St. Malaki, this latest describing a series of popes as well as antipopes. Our Lady of La Salette made multi-prophecies in Her message also, such as speaking of Gregory XVII (Card. Siri) “not reigning long”. She also spoke of antipopes heading the Synagogue of Satan (a part of He prophecy). Simply put, this Prophecy spoke of all persons involved into the time period, popes and antipopes alike.
          Please, to the lone reader of those poor line, humbly pray for enlightment.

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