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Posted on 29 July 2021 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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Daily Rome Shot 230

Posted on 28 July 2021 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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UPDATED – 14 August Pontifical Mass at the National Shrine: FORBIDDEN

Posted on 27 July 2021 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

UPDATE 28 July:

This has international attention now.

NB: As Fr Hunwicke noticed, Gregory forbade a Mass that wasn’t going to be at a dreaded parish church.

An official statement of Paulus Institute:

We must write that the Pontifical Solemn Mass in the Traditional Roman Rite may not take place at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on August 14, the Vigil of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A letter from His Eminence Wilton Cardinal Gregory was received by His Excellency Archbishop Gullickson, our intended celebrant. The decision of His Eminence is that the Mass would seem to be at odds with the recent restrictions of Pope Francis placed upon liturgical celebrations using the 1962 Roman Missal, and is not opportune at this time for permission. We were taken by surprise, since we had previous permission and recent expectations that all was well.

We ask this unfortunate reply be met with controlled reactions, whether with strength, substance, and opposition, but without polemics and inflammatory or coarse words, which The Paulus Institute rejects.

We deeply regret that the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and historic Mass of the Vigil of Our Lady will not occur at the Shrine in the liturgical Roman Rite of millennia. This is the Mass of saints and sinners, kings, queens and paupers, and doctors and virgins of the Church . . . and our own ancestors. It is the equal of the Eastern and Orthodox Divine Liturgy, as they so recognize. The Shrine is the most appropriate church in the United States for this Mass, being not a diocesan church but our national church. It is furthermore the church of our bishops; any of whom may say Mass here without permission, the schedule permitting. It is moreover the church of all American Catholics, who built this majestic edifice over decades and have a right to this enactment of the essence of the deposit of our Catholic faith in the lex orandi-lex credendi of our Catholic heritage.

There it is.

I say: True pastors would be reaching out to people who are in pain.

 

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Another wrinkle to the meaning of your phone’s “location services”.

Posted on 27 July 2021 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From The Pillar….

No… wait…

Firstly, Fr. Altman is from the Diocese of La Crosse.  He got hammered into the ground by his bishop for doing… I’m not quite sure what required that treatment.   Msgr. Burrill – late of the USCCB – was doing Grindr stuff (a hookup app) and has resigned his USCCB post.  He is from the Diocese of La Crosse.  He got hammered into the ground by… no wait… that didn’t happen.  The bishop’s letter says, “we doooon’t know aaaanything for suuuuure”.

Back to The Pillar…

Location-based apps pose security risk for Holy See

The use of location-based hookup apps by officials or employees of Church institutions could present serious security problems for the Church, even at the level of the Holy See’s diplomatic and international relations.

The use of such apps within the Vatican City State could be a point of vulnerability in the Holy See’s efforts to defend itself from cyberattacks and other intelligence-gathering exercises in recent years.

Analysis of commercially available signal data obtained by The Pillar, which was legally obtained and whose authenticity The Pillar has confirmed, shows that during a period of 26 weeks in 2018, at least 32 mobile devices emitted serially occurring hookup or dating app data signals from secured areas and buildings of the Vatican ordinarily inaccessible to tourists and pilgrims.

At least 16 mobile devices emitted signals from the hookup app Grindr on at least four days between March to October 2018 [October 18… wasn’t there a Synod?  (“walking together”)] within the non-public areas of the Vatican City State, while 16 other devices showed use of other location-based hookup or dating apps, both heterosexual and homosexual, on four or more days in the same time period.

The data set assessed by The Pillar is commercially available and contains location and usage information which users consent to be collected and commercialized as a condition of using the app.

Extensive location-based hookup or dating app usage is evident within the walls of Vatican City, in restricted areas of St. Peter’s Basilica, inside Vatican City government and Holy See’s administration buildings including those used by the Vatican’s diplomatic staff, in residential buildings, and in the Vatican Gardens, both during daytime hours and overnight.

Signals emitted from most of the Vatican’s extraterritorial buildings, which house the offices of several key Curial departments were excluded from analysis because of the proximity of tourists, pilgrims, and the general public to those buildings on a daily basis.

The use of any hookup app within the Vatican City State’s secured areas could pose a security risk for the Holy See. And use of the Grindr app among Vatican residents and officials and within the non-public areas of Vatican City State could present a particular diplomatic security risk for the Holy See in its dealings with China.

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CHINA. HOLY SEE. DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS.

BLACKMAIL.

Also, certain activities summon demons and permit them to attach to places, things and persons.

I won’t name any names, … like Pachamama or … not I… I won’t mention the “peace tree” when in the Vatican Gardens the imam read the part of the Koran meant to claim territory for Allah.

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“Why, then, would Francis punish those who worship according to the Latin rite?”

Posted on 27 July 2021 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From The Federalist.  My emphases.

The Latin Mass Is The Future Of The Catholic Church
Pope Francis is punishing a faithful and devout minority of Catholics in hopes of staving off the inevitable.
By John Daniel Davidson

You don’t have to know the entire modern history of the traditional Latin Mass to understand what’s behind Pope Francis’s recent apostolic letter, Traditionis custodes, claiming the ancient rite threatens the unity of the Catholic Church and imposing strict new limits on its use.

All you must do to understand what’s happening now is attend a Latin Mass. There, you will see full church pews teeming with young families and couples, mewling infants and unruly toddlers, single twenty-somethings, and teens. The air will be full of incense and, in some parishes, the haunting beauty of Gregorian chant.

Most of the women and girls will be in veils, most parishioners will be following along with a 1962 Roman missal and responding to the priest in Latin, kneeling or genuflecting as required. You will see, in short, a religious ritual that looks odd and shockingly out of place in modern society. You will also see, unmistakably, the future of the Catholic Church.

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One national survey of Latin Mass attendees, conducted by Fr. Donald Kloster in 2018, found that only 2 percent approve of contraception, compared to 89 percent of Novus ordo attendees. On approval of abortion, the split was 1 percent compared to 51 percent. On government licenses for gay relationships, 2 percent to 67 percent. The same survey found parishioners at Latin Mass have on average nearly 60 percent larger family sizes, donate on average five times more, and attend weekly Mass at 4.5 times the rate of Catholics who attend the Novus ordo rite.

Another survey by Kloster and others, conducted online last year, found that among adults aged 18 to 39 who attend Latin Mass, 98 percent report going every Sunday. This stands in stark contrast to the findings of a 2018 Gallup poll, which showed dramatic declines in weekly Mass attendance among all Catholics, with the sharpest decline in the 21 to 29-year-old demographic, from 73 percent in 1955 to 25 percent in 2017, the lowest of all age groups.

Even more striking, the survey by Kloster found that 90 percent of these young Catholics were not raised in the Latin rite and that the vast majority were drawn to it by forces from within their generation, rather than by their parents. A plurality, 35 percent, cited “reverence” as what prompted them to seek out the Latin rite.

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Why, then, would Francis punish those who worship according to the Latin rite? Why would he misrepresent, in brutal and authoritarian language, the motives of these Catholics?

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Clerics of Francis’s generation, who came up in the reforms of Vatican II, envisioned a very different future for the church than the one that’s now emerging. They imagined a church that would give no offense, in its worship or its doctrine, to Protestants.

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Sapienti pauca.

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In a picture, a thousand words. Reason #868940 for Summorum Pontificum.

Posted on 27 July 2021 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

They want to repress… this?

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Daily Rome Shot 229

Posted on 27 July 2021 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

CLICK for new Z-Swag
“Come and take it!”

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It’s not just the numbers right now, it’s the rate of growth.

Posted on 26 July 2021 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Last night during the rag chew on ZedNet, one of the participants wondered about why the crack down on Catholics who desire the Traditional Latin Mass.  After all, the numbers aren’t all that threatening.

I opined that it wasn’t just a matter of the numbers, as considered in a present day snap-shot of how many people are attending in how many places.

It’s the rate of growth.

From the time that Summorum Pontificum was implemented in 2007, over the next 10 years there was 500% growth.

It seems to me that the indices of places where the Traditional Latin Mass is being celebrated are out of date now.  During COVID Theatre, many young priests quietly implemented Summorum in their parishes.  The indices have to catch up.  I suspect the numbers are higher than supposed.

Which brings me to an article at Crisis about the growth of the TLM.  HERE

Keep in mind that the plural of anecdote is “data”, here are a couple of items.

Yesterday, I heard that this Sunday’s attendance at one FSSP location was some 1300.

Yesterday, a priest friend of mine, traveling through an airport in California, was twice asked, first by a 35 year old TSA agent and later by a 50 year old security guard, whether he was affected by the Motu Proprio.

Back to Crisis.

Over some 30 months, the number of parishes offering the TLM increased by 27%. The average number of parishioners at each TLM increased by 34%. Overall TLM attendance across all parishes from January 2019 to June 2021 increased by 71%.

At a time when general Mass attendance was decreasing, attendance at the TLM was dramatically increasing.

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VIDEO: On Sunday, Bp. Thomas Tobin of Providence visited the parish entrusted to the FSSP. Terrific. Exemplary.

Posted on 26 July 2021 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

On Sunday, Bp. Thomas Tobin of Providence visited the parish entrusted to the FSSP.

This is talk he gave.

This is what I have been harping on for YEARS.

This bishop’s message was:

“You keep doing good to my diocese and l’ll cover your six.”

I keep saying, “BE ENGAGED!”

Be the first to volunteer to help.  Be involved in works of mercy.

This isn’t rocket science.

 

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Powerful denunciation of Traditionis custodes … by a bishop.

Posted on 26 July 2021 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

At Rorate, Peter Kwasniewski posted a translation of a powerful denunciation of Traditiones custodes – Francis’ Plessy v Ferguson attack on the Benedict’s Emancipation Proclamation Summorum Pontificum.

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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