The Responsa ad dubia reveal the profound crisis of faith that the Church is undergoing. The good of the faithful is cast aside based on the specious claim that the immemorial form of worship of the Latin Church is being misused by unnamed people to promote unnamed ideologies, i.e., “creating division.” The truth is exactly the opposite: it’s the Holy See that is sowing the seeds of division by stigmatizing and penalizing faithful Catholics who find that their closeness to God is fostered by availing themselves of the form of worship that produced innumerable saints in the history of the Church.
Somebody should remind Dope Francis of the Agatha Christie Indult.
Okay one he is the Pope and that is very disrespectful. And I do not tolerate disrespect of the Pope.
ReplyDeleteThe restrictions, as I read them, are three: permission from one's bishop; the Mass to be said in a regularly constituted parish; and the Mass not to be understood as a defiance of Vatican II. Within the Archdiocese of Washington, there are four Tridentine Masses said per week. For that matter, when in Rome last month, I stayed around the corner from a parish, Santissima Trinita dei Pellegrini, that used the Tridentine form--which suggests to me that the local bishop assented.
ReplyDeleteLet me amend my count for the Archdiocese of Washington: three weekly, plus one each first Friday.
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