Can someone explain how Benedict XVI's moto proprio declaration granting the "Indult" does not apply to the priests who said mass at this college? Is the indult cancelled now?
The indult to say the traditional (1962) Mass is an exception that the local bishop has the authority to grant or not grant.
This is what the
motu proprio says:
Art. 2. In Masses celebrated without the people, each Catholic priest of the Latin rite, whether secular or regular, may use the Roman Missal published by Bl. Pope John XXIII in 1962, or the Roman Missal promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1970, and may do so on any day with the exception of the Easter Triduum. For such celebrations, with either one Missal or the other, the priest has no need for permission from the Apostolic See or from his Ordinary.
As you can see, the phrase I bolded merely allows priests to say the 1962 Mass without permission if he does so alone, without servers, without people present.
This bishop has
fully accommodated, in accordance with other provisions of the
motu proprio, the wishes for the 1962 Mass by anyone who wishes to attend by making it available at St. Mary of the Assumption Church (see the bishop's letter, norm #1).
Now, if the college closes the doors of the chapel, the bishop cannot deny the right of any Conciliar priest who has faculties to say Mass in his diocese to say the 1962 Mass. Of course, no one would know about it so it would not be an issue.
Just so. This is a situation where one side has been doing its damnedest to play strictly by Newchurch rules and the other side—the side holding all the marbles as well as the exclusive right to write and rewrite the rules at will—laughs loudly at the first side's cluelessness.
This is why the SSPX's "celebration" of
Summorum Pontificuм was so insane! The
motu proprio did not "free" the traditional Mass, which was, I thought, one of the pre-conditions to negotiations. All it did was allow for priests to do in secrecy what they wished to do without having any scruples of conscience that they were "breaking the rules" or something like that. The [Conciliar] faithful have exactly the same
legal access to attend the traditional (1962) Mass they did prior to the publication of the
motu proprio on July 7, 2007--i.e.,
if they can find a willing priest and
if they can find a church building whose rector is willing to allow it, and
if the bishop is willing to allow the nostalgic fad that they all believe is behind the desire to go to the traditional Mass, they can have it when and where the bishop graciously allows. Otherwise, who cares what the laity do because most of them still put money in the collection basket anyway?
Just so. This is a situation where one side has been doing its damnedest to play strictly by Newchurch rules and the other side—the side holding all the marbles as well as the exclusive right to write and rewrite the rules at will—laughs loudly at the first side's cluelessness.
And are you surprised? Satan always laughs at people's foolishness.
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