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Cardinal Burke
« on: December 01, 2016, 07:47:35 AM »
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    Inch by inch, Burke may be getting there. Patience.

    In an interview concerning Francis' comment of the Latin Mass being an "exception" to the norm re:
    " [The permission of the Latin Mass is a] fair and magnanimous gesture to meet a certain mentality of some groups and people who had nostalgia. ... But it is an exception."

    Burke responded:
    "It is the Mass of the Church of all times and therefore it can not be overthrown..."

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    My poor reflection:

    The Novus Ordo and the TLM have been at war for many years. The former is emblematic of a new order of things--a new belief system, sometimes subtle, sometimes not. The latter is of old things-- now mysterious to many and therefore glared at with pulsating suspicion or simply ignored.
    No matter how desperate the battle seems, no matter how the defenders of the TLM are being sidelined and maligned, or barraged with falsehoods and calumnies, in the end, only one will stand, and it is not the one which came about (officially) in 1969 and is supposedly still under "renewal".
    I can assure you, our mentality is not based on anything other than to afford Our Lord His due justice in worship. If it is nostalgic, it is because we have read the works of the Saints--and those who came after them-- who were humble enough to realize that the God who sacrificed His Only Son for our sake deserves to be worshiped and adored in a manner befitting His eternal majesty.
    What we summarily rejected, through the Holy Ghost's constancy (under Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Edward VI and his cohorts) cannot be then given to us as though it were God's own fashioning.
    If we are confused as to why and how we have arrived where we are under Francis, all that needs to be done is to walk backwards, retracing our steps. In doing so, we will then see much of the good we have left behind, and how much we have veered off the right path.
    Much of today's societal questions which confuse us (and render us either pusillanimous or fickle) will cease to have power over our intellect and will.
    There is a war going on, and whether or not we pay attention to it, it will affect us one way or another. To be properly equipped for this war is to use all the tools afforded to us by the Church's rich history.
    As some say, Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, Lex Vivendi.
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    Offline TKGS

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    Cardinal Burke
    « Reply #1 on: December 01, 2016, 09:51:38 AM »
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  • According to other reports, the Vatican may strip him of his cardinal hat for publicly speaking against Bergoglio.  

    The question is not whether he'll "get there" (wherever "there" is), but if he'll continue given the overt threat he has received and what he will do if the Vatican follows through and removes his status as a cardinal.  Furthermore, what will the other cardinals do?

    I just don't foresee anything really happening.