Another bombshell from Diane Montagna about the extremely dodgy excuses for the cruel “Traditionis custodes”

Diane Montagna has a Substack (I still haven’t figured that out yet) about the extremely dodgy excuses for the cruel “Traditionis custodes”. She had published the summary of the survey of bishops. She asked about it during a presser. She got a slippery answer. Msgr. Nicola Bux coincidently issued a short book about the same topic.

Diane’s Substack piece is HERE, if you can read it.  If not, here is a summary.

Montagna’s article at Substack provides evidence challenging the Vatican’s non-“explanation” for restricting the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) through Taurina cacata…. Traditionis custodes. She documents that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), tasked with surveying bishops globally in 2020 about the implementation of Summorum Pontificum (Benedict XVI’s decree liberalizing the TLM), produced a final report stating most bishops did not support legislative changes.

This final report, protocol number N. 03/2020-ED and dated 22 February 2021, included a comprehensive assessment, regional summaries, statistical analysis, and a florilegium of bishops’ quotations. Montagna published parts of this report on 1 July: the majority of bishops believed restricting the TLM would cause more harm than good.

In TC and the accompanying letter, Francis explicitly stated that this 2020 CDF consultation convinced him to impose new limits on the TLM. However, after Montagna’s publication, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni claimed her excerpts were “partial and incomplete” and that “other confidential reports” were also used in making the decision. None of these were cited in the decree or disclosed to the public.

Montagna writes that this new claim contradicts the Francis claim, which referred solely to the CDF survey as the basis for the decision. She states that if additional documents were decisive, they should be presented openly.   I think that would be a matter of justice to the people who were harmed by what seems to have been done on the basis of a falsehood.

Further, she explains that the introduction to the CDF report’s Second Part explicitly confirms it was the Congregation’s official synthesis prepared at Francis’ request. The report was compiled by the Fourth Section (formerly the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei“).

Montagna contends that unless the Vatican produces credible evidence proving the CDF’s conclusions misrepresented bishops’ views, the claim of widespread episcopal support for restrictions collapses. She concludes that this inconsistency undermines confidence in the Vatican’s transparency and decision-making and calls for disclosure of the purported “confidential” evidence.

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For those who want a less Catholic parish…

I was sent this…

For those who want a less Catholic parish.

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Today is the Feast of the Martyrs of Gorkum.  Learn about them.

Meanwhile…

Well said! Rist was one of my professors at the Patristic Institute “Augustinianum” in Rome. He contributed essays to a couple of books that Francis didn’t like.

Maybe there’s more to my streamed Masses after all!

 

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9 July – A traffic jam of SAINTS!

Today – 9 July – in the Vetus Ordo, we can celebrate

St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher
The Martyrs of Gorkum
St. Veronica Giuliani

All amazing.  All worthy of honor.

What to do?

Since I have a relic of St. Veronica, I will celebrate with her texts today for my streamed out Mass.

That said, the Mass texts in the Extraordinary Form for these Sts Thomas More and John Fisher on 9 July are not easy to find. FATHERS… get them HERE

Huge thanks for the texts from my good friend, His Hermeneuticalness, Fr. Tim Finigan.  Pray for him.

Tonight… this great classic?

US HERE – UK HERE

There is a superb post about the Martyrs of Gorkum HERE.  They are not much known in these USA.

There is a great documentary/movie video on Youtube about St. Veronica.  HERE  When Padre Pio learned of her and her writings, he said “Someone who understands me.”

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That puts things in perspective.

What?!?

The Bishop of San Bernardino (California) has dispensed ALL the faithful from Sunday obligation because of potential arrests of illegal aliens.

That puts things in perspective.

I wonder what Saint Bernardin of Siena would say to this bishop.

What might the Martyrs of Abitinae who preferred to be tortured to death rather than renounce Mass and the Eucharist?  “Sine dominico non possumus”!

Today is the Feast of the Martyrs of Gorkum, rounded up and killed by Protestants because they would not renounce the doctrine of transubstantiation.  Would they have an opinion?

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A reader requested Masses to be said for victims of the flash flood in Texas

One of you readers has requested Masses to be said for victims of the flash flood in Texas.  Today I will start with them.   You also might say a prayer for the repose of their souls and a prayer for their families.

So many stories and so much sorrow.

 

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Sage advice. It might choke you up.

Ever the optimist, from my desire to improve my chess game I look at chess videos and books. I lately came upon a bit of advice from a somewhat eccentric writer of yesteryear named Franklin K. Young who tried to apply battlefield principles to chess. I am compelled to share it with you, so that you can benefit from the fruit of my labors. That’s how much I care for you. Here we go!

“Always deploy so that the right oblique may be readily established in case the objective plane remains open or becomes permanently located on the centre or on the king’s wing, or that the crochet aligned may readily be established if the objective plane becomes permanently located otherwise than at the extremity of the strategic front.”

This makes me choke up a little each time I read it.

Essentially it means:

1.e4

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Daily Rome Shot 1387 – 7 July… remind you of anything?

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White to move and mate in 2. Time yourself. GO!

NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.

Chessy news… Magnus won the Rapid and Blitz in Croatia.  Big news.  Happily Wesley So took silver.  YAY!   Look at this CRAZY game between Wesley and Fabiano Caruana.   If you are pressed for time, skip down to about move 40 and WATCH the chaos.

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A corresponded in England wrote to me:

There’s about 700 people.

At least 50% thanks to your publicity. Lots of Americans

And…

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VIDEO: London Oratory (aka Brompton Oratory) Schola’s new disc: Sacred Treasures of Rome (This video… Tu es Petrus by Palestrina – terrific!)

Please enjoy this promo video for the new disc from the London Oratory (aka Brompton Oratory) Schola called Sacred Treasures of Rome.

I wrote at length about this new collection HERE.

Amazon USA link for album: HERE

Amazon UK link for album: HERE

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Vesting prayer for the clip-on wireless microphone 

It’s interesting a how things happen in clusters.  What is that… synchronicity?

The other day a priest friend and I were having supper and the topic of microphones came up.  I mentioned the thought of Marshal McLuhan on the impact of the amplified voice on liturgical rites.  Microphones change a lot.   They alter the knock-on effect of liturgy.

In any event, I told an anecdote about a certain bishop who left his clip on mic turned on when, during a Mass that was live on the internet, he simply had to visit the little prelates room.  That gave new meaning to “live streaming”.

What is the synchronicity.  I was looking for something else I had posted and, bam, there it was.  The vesting prayer for the clip-on wireless mic.

As you know, there are beautiful prayers for putting on each of the vestments for Mass.  Priests should be saying them if they don’t already.   Since the dreadful clip-on mic is pretty much standard gear now, it ought to have a prayer too, right?

Concede, Domine, virtutem labiis meis et prudentiam ad Tuam proclamandam veritatem, ut per indigni servi Tui vocem, vox Tui tonitrui in rota contremat terram. 

“Grant, Lord, good judgment in proclaiming your truth and strength to my lips, so that through the voice of your unworthy servant, a voice will shake the earth in the wheel of your thunder.”

Cf. Ezekiel 1:16 ff.

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