Powerful denunciation of Traditionis custodes … by a bishop.

At Rorate,

The text is a workshop on what is wrong in Rome, what is right with Tradition.

It is clear, concise and frank and it is by a Bishop.

Not just a bishop, a relatively young bishop.   Bp. Mutsaerts protested against the Amazonian Synod and even resigned some of his administrative duties as Auxiliary to his radical ideologue pro-Pachamama Ordinary.  HERE

Remember, friends.  As the demographics of the Church shift, new bishops will have to be drawn from priests who are now young and who don’t carry the baggage of the halcyon days of the “spirit of Vatican II”.  The pool on which they can draw for new bishops will be more and more traditional in its make up and openness.

As the for the older ideologues…. tick… tick… tick… tick… tick…

I’ll bet they can feel it.

Some tastes of Bp. Mutsaerts’ J’Accuse! …

An Evil Edict from Pope Francis

Bp. Rob Mutsaerts
Auxiliary Bishop of ‘s-Hertogenbosch

Pope Francis promotes synodality: everyone should be able to talk, everyone should be heard. This was hardly the case with his recently published motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, an ukase [imperial edict] [Russian] that must put an immediate termination on the traditional Latin Mass.

The fact that Francis here uses the word of power without any consultation indicates that he is losing authority.

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By the way, the Church has never abolished liturgies.

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Pope Francis is now pretending that his motu proprio belongs to the organic development of the Church, which utterly contradicts the reality. By making the Latin Mass practically impossible, he finally breaks with the age-old liturgical tradition of the Roman Catholic Church. Liturgy is not a toy of popes; it is the heritage of the Church. The Old Mass is not about nostalgia or taste. The pope should be the guardian of Tradition; the pope is a gardener, not a manufacturer. Canon law is not merely a matter of positive law; there is also such a thing as natural law and divine law, and, moreover, there is such a thing as Tradition that cannot simply be brushed aside.

What Pope Francis is doing here has nothing to do with evangelization and even less to do with mercy. It is more like ideology.

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Bishops now have the unenviable task of having yet another burden placed on their shoulders.  While Summorum Pontificum exercised pastoral subsidiarity, now the situation on the ground is more complicated by far because of interference from on high.  Also, those who have to determine what to do in their dioceses aren’t in a good position to do so: most of them do not know the Traditional Roman Rite, they do not know the people, they haven’t spent time with them.  How do you make informed decisions about something so important.  And I mean the people.

It’s not just that Francis has definitively revealed that he, personally, doesn’t like Traditional sacred worship. He’s a Jesuit, after all, infamous for their liturgical apathy.  It’s that Francis doesn’t like the people who like Traditional worship.

We must pray for the softening of the hearts of those who will implement Traditionis custodes, lest they go to their Creator – quod Deus avertat – with this cold, sclerotic stain.

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10 Comments

  1. Bob says:

    Let us feel blessed for if the Catholic Church was not the pillar and foundation of Truth, the True Church founded by Christ then Satan wouldn’t waste one second persecuting Her.

  2. Bob says:

    However woe to him through whom he persecutes Her.

  3. Danteewoo says:

    “By the way, the Church has never abolished liturgies.” How do I reconcile this statement with what Paul VI did?

  4. You Can Call Me Betty says:

    Sounds like a bit of a tit-for-tat going on here: if the pope can negatively presume the interior intentions of the TLM-faithful, then I guess it’s fair game to make negative assumptions regarding the pope’s interior attitude toward them. This would nonetheless seem a stinging rebuke.

    Regardless, I really do think that this misguided (ill-considered? poorly implemented? badly-worded?) action on the part of the pope will ultimately result in liturgical renewal, at least in catechesis if not in form–meaning a renewed focus on what it means for the congregation to truly, deeply, “participate” in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and the encouragement for them to do so–as bishops in good faith begin to look at their flocks with new eyes.

    At least, that’s my hope.

    It’s been a long time coming.

  5. Fulco One Eye says:

    At our Tridentine Mass this Sunday, we had several “new” people. There were enough that our priest made note of their presence amidst the usual number of about 180. My wife spoke to a lady nearby who was a “first-timer”. Those who are open minded and not “rigid” may come to find that we are not what the Pope describes.

  6. sendero says:

    I wish Fr. Z’s prognosis was true; once the Spirit of Vatican II prelates are exhausted from the promtion list things will turnaround. I have the opinion that the VII prelates would rather fully turn over the regins of full power to the more financally corrupt homosexuals like McCarrick and the other “meat for the grindr” priests. The VII hierarchy put those people in place because they were easily controlled through blackmail. They were useful to the VII idealogues protecting them. Now is when the servant demands to become the master. For consider: the McCarrick’s of the Church were not promoted to top positions because of their widely acknowledged saintliness.

  7. sendero says:

    I wish Fr. Z’s prognosis was true; once the Spirit of Vatican II prelates are exhausted from the promtion list things will turnaround. I have the opinion that the VII prelates would rather fully turn over the regins of full power to the more financally corrupt homosexuals like McCarrick and the other “meat for the grindr” priests. The VII hierarchy put those people in place because they were easily controlled through blackmail. They were useful to the VII idealogues protecting them. Now is when the servant demands to become the master. For consider: the McCarrick’s of the Church were not promoted to top positions because of their widely acknowledged saintliness.

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  9. TonyO says:

    The new red guard catholics would definitely be on their way out by now. They don’t reproduce themselves, and their “brand” doesn’t attract converts of its own natural force. If it weren’t for 2 important details, we could be confident of the date of death of their attempt to ruin the Church.

    1. They don’t need to reproduce themselves in the natural manner: they do it in the artificial manner. They control the majority of the “catholic” schools in toto, and control nearly all at the level of administration. They control the mechanisms of finding, advancing, and “qualifying” the rank and file teachers for “catholic” schools, by controlling 96% of the “catholic” universities and colleges. The “catholic” national teachers association is owned by the red guard.

    Therefore, they are turning your children into their intellectual and idiological offspring. They “re-produce” themselves by infecting your children with their viruses.

    2. They do something similar, but even more sinister, to candidates for the priesthood. In addition to forcing them through seminaries that are wholly owned by the new red guard, they subject the seminarians to a constant barrage of intellectual, idiological, and emotional warfare to break down their resistance to infection. The ones too strong to break down are then kicked out as “rigid”. The ones that remain have been made into spineless, owned robots for modernism. As an added control, many are made to either submit to sexual exploitation, or at least to remain silent about it when they see it, and ONLY THOSE SO SUBMISSIVE are marked for further advancement, thus the (pink and) red guard have either DIRECT influence over prelates, or they have indirect influence by threatening to “expose” the poor priest’s faulty past if he tries to break out of this control. (I am just recounting what is in “Goodbye, Good Men”.)

    Thus, without MAJOR disruption of their methods, the new red guard will continue to reproduce themselves into new generations of corruption. The amazing, shocking fact is that they are, in SPITE of these advantages, in the process of losing sufficient control and momentum to retain the drivers’ seat advantages. Sufficient independent Catholic schools have been formed, since 1990, and homeschooled Catholics have been taught, that the “catholic” schools are far less in control now than they were in 1980. A few small but highly regarded faithful Catholic colleges are now thriving, unlike in 1970 when there was 0. Seminaries are not quite as lockstep horrible now compared to how they were 40 years ago. And good men keep on getting ordained in spite of the efforts to “re-educate” them.

    The last bastion is going to be the college of bishops. If (somehow, we cannot begin to say how), enough priests are elevated to the purple hat to actually rein in the ongoing corruption through collective action, then the new red guards will be gone. But we STILL cannot see a mechanism for it. This pope, far more than any of his recent predecessors, has clearly made a point of appointing men of his own idiological stripe.

    But the old mass will be part of the solution. I think that writing is on the wall.

  10. rdb says:

    I wish I could be as sanguine about the future of the US episcopacy. While there are many, many fine priests who would make exceptional biships, there are many more mediocre priests. Under the current pontificate the choice will almost always go to the mediocre. It is well known that any priest who exhibits interest in the TLM are immediately discounted for the episcopacy. The same is true for auxiliary bishops who will not be going anywhere soon.

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