AdVaticanum is increasingly useful.
Here is their reportage of an interview that San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone gave with a French source.
This is an Archbishop who gets it.
Here is a taste from the beginning.
My emphases
Archbishop Cordileone: Church had greater unity under Summorum Pontificum
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has said the Church experienced greater unity under Summorum Pontificum than under Traditionis Custodes, warning that restrictions on the traditional liturgy risk reopening old wounds
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has said the Church experienced greater unity under Pope Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum than it does under Pope Francis’s Traditionis Custodes.
In an interview with French Catholic newspaper Tribune Chrétienne on October 8, the Archbishop of San Francisco said the restrictions placed on the traditional liturgy risk repeating wounds caused by the rapid liturgical changes that followed the Second Vatican Council.
“It’s very clear to me that there was more unity in the Church when we were living under Summorum Pontificum than we are now under Traditionis Custodes,” Archbishop Cordileone said. [Kee in mind that “unity” is, at least on the surface, one of Leo’s strong desires, give how often he uses the word.]
He recalled the “liturgical wars” that followed the Council, when Catholics were judged and stereotyped according to their liturgical preferences. He said tensions continued into the 1990s before the situation began to “mellow” following the indult permitted under St John Paul II and then the publication of Summorum Pontificum. [Under SP people started to “unclench”. It was working, especially because it was getting into parish churches and young priests were being shaped by it, which affected how they understood themselves and priests and how the celebrated Holy Mass. The knock on effect went on to the laity.]
Under Pope Benedict’s approach, Archbishop Cordileone said, Catholics attached to traditional worship and those preferring more contemporary forms could coexist peacefully without harsh judgement.
The Archbishop said Pope Benedict recognised that the Church had suffered a “profound wound” through the rupture experienced after the Council, including cases in which rapid and radical liturgical changes had damaged, and sometimes destroyed, Catholics’ faith.
Archbishop Cordileone also explained that Pope Benedict XVI’s proposal to recognise the ordinary and extraordinary forms of the Roman Rite was intended to facilitate what the former Pope called an “internal reconciliation” within the Church’s worship. His Grace said Benedict understood that genuine reconciliation could not be engineered by a committee of scholars drafting a new liturgy, but would have to develop organically through generations of Catholics worshipping according to both forms.
“It has to happen organically,” Archbishop Cordileone said. “Pope Benedict understood that this would take a long time, generations, maybe even centuries, with people worshiping with both forms of the Mass to come to a unified worship in the Church.” [This was the insight of Joseph Ratzinger and he was 1000% right.]
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The main issue with SP is that it forced a compromise at the parish level no one was happy with. Which Mass got the better Sunday Mass time? Usually the Novus Ordo. Same with Holy Days, Triduum, confirmations, and daily Mass: all are Novus Ordo. Eventually people get tired of being ghettoized. I don’t see how both existing at the diocesan level can lead to tranquil order with the limited resources currently available.
I was baptized, confirmed, communed, and married in the TLM. The Novus Ordo is not my rite, and never will be.
The current argument against the TLM is that it is injurious to unity.
The next will be that it “steals” resources from the “mainstream” Mass and given our “current situation” (which is thoroughly unrelated to V2) we simply cannot ask father to do any more Masses than he currently does.
My pastor is not allowed to baptize the children of his own parishioners. The new baby has to wait an extra week for one of the FSSP priests assigned to “assist” with the diocese to travel to the church in order to baptize the child. That’s the “unity” of T.C.
Luke Wellborn: I really don’t understand the supposedly negative “compromise”. For 10 years we had a wonderful sung Sunday Traditional Latin Mass in our parish and, while it wasn’t perhaps the “better” Mass time, it was treasured by the congregation and we were profoundly hurt by our Bishop’s prohibition. Frankly, we would welcome a parish Sunday TLM even at a time which isn’t the “better” time. Second, I’m not aware of any of us who object to attending the Novus Ordo at whatever time it may be made available, even if not the better or best time. Third, in a meeting with our Bishop we pointed out that the TLM attendees also regularly attended the Novus Ordo at other times and were fully integrated in the life of the parish and, although that integration is the way it’s supposed to be, I suspect that our Bishop would prefer that we can only attend the TLM at the one parish in the Diocese dedicated to the TLM so that we are isolated and not integrated in our parish, thereby unable to infect the other parishioners with our dangerous under appreciation for the TLM. That TLM parish is effectively our diocese’s TLM isolation ward or ghetto, kept apart, isolated, and thereby unable to infect our parish with our wrong thinking.
For Luke Welborn and The Bruised Optimist – it won’t happen overnight – as the last part implies – “It has to happen organically,” Archbishop Cordileone said. “Pope Benedict understood that this would take a long time, generations, maybe even centuries, with people worshiping with both forms of the Mass to come to a unified worship in the Church.”
Yes, my local parish won’t have a TLM Easter Tridiuum in my lifetime, but it will take time!
HM, mickeyfitz notes that perhaps the bishop wants the TLM’ers off and segregated, perhaps so he can show how much they detract from unity?
And then, what is “unity”? I suppose we must wax Clintonian and ponder what “is” is, and reflect on how many of our contemporaries think it is a synonym for unconditional submission. It is strikingly similar to the bumper-sticker adage about liberalism being freedom of opinion (when it matches mine), and pray for conversions of heart all around.
My wife and I are currently in Copenhagen Denmark and attended mass last night which was a TLM. It was wonderful to be able to worship in a universal language that works everywhere rather than attending a NO in Danish which we don’t speak a word of. One of the strengths of the VO is it’s universality that you can go anytime the world and be able to follow the mass. Next Sunday we will be in Rome so will of course attend mass at “The Parish”.
The post-Conciliar years are mystically analogous to the piercing of the Sacred Heart. It was indeed a “profound wound.” However, those Catholics who would prefer to just pretend it never happened (and go immediately back to how things were) do further injustice to the Church by inhibiting the healing process.