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Offline SeanJohnson

Brutal SSPX Condemnation of Traditionis Custodes
« on: July 19, 2021, 11:06:20 AM »
From Summorum Pontificuм to Traditionis Custodes
(Or, From the Reservation to the Zoo)
 
 
 
Yesterday Pope Francis published a motu proprio whose title could be full of hope: Traditionis custodes, "guardians of Tradition". Knowing that it is addressed to the bishops, one could be tempted to dream: is Tradition recovering its rights within the Church?
 
On the contrary. This new motu proprio makes an elimination. It illustrates the precariousness of the present magisterium and indicates the expiration date of Benedict XVI's Summorum pontificuм, which will not even have celebrated its fifteenth birthday.
 
Everything, or almost everything, contained in Summorum pontificuм has been dispersed, abandoned or destroyed. The purpose is clearly stated in the letter that accompanies this liquidation.
 
The Pope lists two principles "on how to proceed in the dioceses": "on the one hand, to provide for the good of those who are rooted in the previous form of celebration and who need time to return to the Roman rite promulgated by Saints Paul VI and John Paul II.”
 
And on the other hand: "to stop the erection of new personal parishes, linked more to the desire and will of individual priests than to the needs of the 'holy and faithful people of God'".
 
A programmed extinction
While Francis is the defender of endangered species of animals and plants, he decides and promulgates the extinction of those who are attached to the immemorial rite of the Holy Mass. This species no longer has the right to live: it must disappear. And all means will be employed to achieve this result.
 
First of all, a strict reduction of freedom. Until now, the spaces reserved for the old rite had a certain latitude of movement, a bit like reservations. Today, we have moved to a zoo regime: cages, tightly restricted and delimited. The number of cages is strictly controlled, and once installed, no more cages may be provided.
 
The guardians - or should we say jailers? - are none other than the bishops themselves.
 
All this is specified in Article 3, paragraph 2: "The bishop (...) shall indicate one or more places where the faithful who belong to these groups may meet for the celebration of the Eucharist (but not in parish churches and without erecting new personal parishes)."
 
The internal regulations of these jails are severely controlled (Article 3, paragraph 3): "The bishop (...) shall establish the days on which, in the place indicated, Eucharistic celebrations are permitted with the use of the Roman Missal promulgated by Saint John XXIII in 1962."
 
This control extends to the smallest details (ibid): "In these celebrations, the readings will be proclaimed in the vernacular, using the translations of Sacred Scripture for liturgical use, approved by the respective Episcopal Conferences." No question of using the translation of a Dom [Gaspar] Lefebvre or a lectionary of the past.
 
Euthanasia is envisaged for specimens judged unfit for palliative care (Article 3, paragraph 5): "The bishop (...) shall proceed, in the personal parishes canonically erected for the benefit of these faithful, to an appropriate evaluation of their real usefulness for spiritual growth, and shall decide whether or not to maintain them."
 
The reservation, moreover, is eliminated as a whole, since the Ecclesia Dei Commission disappears (Article 6): "Institutes of consecrated life and societies of apostolic life, erected at the time by the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, pass under the competence of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life."
 
Prohibited for migrants
While the pope never stops caring for all kinds of migrants, the prisons he sets up have walled borders, impassable from the outside.
 
To make sure that no wilderness reserves are formed, the pope forbids any expansion of the prison (Article 3, paragraph 6): "The bishop (...) will take care not to allow the formation of new groups."
 
This measure is also akin to sterilization: these savages of the past must disappear, they are forbidden to reproduce and perpetuate their species.
 
This sterilization also concerns priests who will be ordained in the future (article 4): "Priests ordained after the publication of this Motu proprio, who intend to celebrate with the 1962 Missale Romanum, must make a formal request to the diocesan bishop, who will consult the Apostolic See before granting authorization."
 
As for priests who already have authorization, they will now need a renewal of their "celebratory" pass, which is similar to a temporary visa (Article 5): "Priests who already celebrate according to the 1962 Missale Romanum will ask the diocesan bishop for authorization to continue to use the faculty."
 
Thus, if it is a question of restricting, reducing or even destroying the groups, the bishops have carte blanche, but if it is a question of authorizing, the Pope does not trust them: they must go through Rome.
 
While dozens of priests, often supported by their bishops, have taunted the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith by "blessing" ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ couples, without any Roman reaction, except for a veiled approval from Francis through his message to Fr.
 
Obviously, it is easier to mask one's lack of authority by terrorizing the faithful who will not resist, than to reduce the German schism. It seems that there was nothing more urgent than to hit this part of the flock...
 
 
Vaccination against Lefebvrism
The great fear of contamination by the Lefebvrist virus is exorcised by the vaccine Vat. II vaccine - from the Moderna laboratory - mandatory (article 3, paragraph 1): "The bishop (...) will see to it that such groups do not exclude the validity and legitimacy of the liturgical reform, of the provisions of the Second Vatican Council and of the Magisterium of the Supreme Pontiffs."
 
And anything that could be a source of potential infection is ruthlessly eliminated (Article 8): "Previous norms, instructions, concessions and customs, which are not in conformity with the provisions of the present Motu Proprio, are abrogated."
 
Carried away by his impetus, the Pope almost comes to say that it is the old Mass that is a dangerous virus from which we must protect ourselves. Thus, in Article 1, he states, "The liturgical books promulgated by the Holy Pontiffs Paul VI and John Paul II, in accordance with the decrees of the Second Vatican Council, are the only expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite."
 
If the Novus Ordo is the only expression of the lex orandi, how do we qualify the Tridentine Mass? Is it liturgically or canonically weightless? Is it not even entitled to the place that the Dominican Rite, the Ambrosian Rite, or the Lyon Rite still occupy in the Latin Church?
 
This is what seems to emerge from what the Pope says in the letter that accompanies the motu proprio. Without seeming to suspect the paralogism he is committing, he writes: "I am comforted in this decision by the fact that after the Council of Trent, St. Pius V also abrogated all the rites that could not claim proven antiquity, establishing a single Missale Romanum for the entire Latin Church. For four centuries, therefore, this Missale Romanum promulgated by St. Pius V was the principal expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite, fulfilling a unifying function in the Church."
 
The logical conclusion that follows from this comparison is that this rite should be maintained. The logical conclusion that follows from this comparison is that this rite must be maintained, especially since the bull Quo primum of St. Pius V protects it against any attack.
 
This was confirmed by the commission of cardinals convened by John Paul II, who affirmed almost unanimously (8 out of 9) that a bishop could not prevent a priest from celebrating it, after having unanimously noted that it had never been forbidden.
 
Pope Benedict XVI accepted and ratified this in Summorum pontificuм.
 
But for Francis, the ancient rites maintained by St. Pius V, including the so-called Tridentine Mass, have no unifying value, it seems. The new rite alone, with its fifty years of existence, its infinite variations and its innumerable abuses, is capable of giving liturgical unity to the Church. The contradiction is obvious.
 
Returning to his idea of eliminating the species, the pope can write to the bishops, "Above all, it is up to you to work for the return to a unitary form of celebration, verifying on a case-by-case basis the reality of the groups that celebrate with this Missale Romanum."
 
A law manifestly opposed to the common good
The general impression that emerges from these docuмents - motu proprio and the accompanying letter from the Pope - is one of sectarianism and a clear abuse of power.
 
The traditional Mass belongs to the most intimate part of the common good of the Church, and to restrict it, to reject it in ghettos and finally to program its disappearance, can have no legitimacy. This law is not a law of the Church because, as St. Thomas says, there is no valid law against the common good.
 
Moreover, in the ins and outs, there is an obvious hint of the rage that some rabid liturgical reformers have against the traditional Mass. The failure of this reform is underlined, as if in a chiaroscuro, by the success of Tradition and of the Tridentine Mass.
 
That is why they cannot stand it. No doubt imagining that its total disappearance will make the faithful return to the churches emptied of the sacred. Tragic mistake. The magnificent rise of this celebration worthy of God only underlines their indigence: it is not the cause of the desertification produced by the new rite.
 
The fact remains that this motu proprio, which will sooner or later end up in the oblivion of the history of the Church, is not good news in itself: it marks a halt in the Church's reappropriation of its Tradition, and it will delay the end of the crisis that has already lasted for more than sixty years.
 
As for the Society of St. Pius X, it finds a new reason for fidelity to its founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, and for admiration of his clear-sightedness, his prudence and his faith.
 
While the traditional Mass is being eliminated and the promises made to the Ecclesia Dei societies are being kept, it finds in the freedom bequeathed to it by the Bishop of Iron, the possibility of continuing to fight for the faith and the reign of Christ the King.
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Offline Pax Vobis

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Re: Brutal SSPX Condemnation of Traditionis Custodes
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2021, 11:33:51 AM »
That's good but it's just words.  The new-sspx needs to publicly reject +Francis' quasi-jurisdiction for marriage/confession, as unnecessary.  Then we'll know the new-sspx means business.
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Offline SeanJohnson

Re: Brutal SSPX Condemnation of Traditionis Custodes
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2021, 11:42:14 AM »
Quote from: Pax Vobis on July 19, 2021, 11:33:51 AM
That's good but it's just words.  The new-sspx needs to publicly reject +Francis' quasi-jurisdiction for marriage/confession, as unnecessary.  Then we'll know the new-sspx means business.

Pax-

I agree with you that "one swallow does not make spring," and that there are many related or derivitive issues springing from, or consequent to, the 2012 reorientation of the SSPX which still need to be addressed.

But this indictment is out of character for the neo-SSPX, and as Lad has written elsewhere, I believe it is opening the eyes of many of them (and others).

All the SSPX clergy must be thinking, "Thank God BXVI did not accept the Doctrinal Declaration signed by Bishop Fellay!"

But they weren't necessarily thinking that last week, or last year.

So, in such measure (and ONLY in such measure) as this indictment represents an epiphany for the SSPX regarding the mask falling from Francis's intentions, then it is a very good thing.

I would expect as this awareness sinks in, additional subsequent acts of disentanglement with the modernist/Masonic Romans might follow in dure course.
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Offline Incredulous

Re: Brutal SSPX Condemnation of Traditionis Custodes
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2021, 11:55:05 AM »




Whoa!  Suddenly tough trad-talkie by the liberal SSPX?

But where were they the past 11 years?

The SSPX will hold back public outrage over Pachamama as long as they get can themselves regularized.

If the SSPX and Francis don't have a deal, then the Pachamama pope will turn his guns on the SSPX.

And don't forget, as what the "science" priest, Father Paul Robinson said, the biggest threat to the Faith is the trad Resistance.
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Offline SeanJohnson

Re: Brutal SSPX Condemnation of Traditionis Custodes
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2021, 12:02:08 PM »
Quote from: Incredulous on July 19, 2021, 11:55:05 AM



Whoa!  Suddenly tough trad-talkie by the liberal SSPX?

But where were they the past 11 years?

The SSPX will hold back public outrage over Pachamama as long as they get can themselves regularized.

If the SSPX and Francis don't have a deal, then the Pachamama pope will turn his guns on the SSPX.

And don't forget, as what the "science" priest, Father Paul Robinson said, the biggest threat to the Faith is the trad Resistance.

My wife said the same thing: "Now that they can't get a deal from Francis, its OK to condemn them from the pulpits (and I would add, in articles) again."

Its a valid and accurate point.

Here's an interesting question:

If Francis now, illogically, were to offer to make Fr. Pagliarani a Cardinal in charge of all the traddies on the reservation, would he accept it?

Until yesterday, everything would seemed to have indicate yes (as demonstrated by the 20 year incremental rapprochement, and Fr. Pagliarani's own written words).

Now, in light of this denunciation (whether for the right reasons, or for the wrong reasons) I'm not so sure.
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