[EsclavoDeCristo]

They attend Mass in Latin, using a liturgy Rome abolished. They abstain from meat on Fridays and women cover their heads in church. For more than three decades, a small group of American Roman Catholics has been quietly worshipping in ways the Vatican told them to abandon.

I didn't know any of that was prohibited by Rome. I know that maybe some 'progressive, compassionate, and politically correct' bishop might try to prohibit it.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

It's not prohibited. I've yet to see a reporter get the facts right in an article about traditionalists.

[Francis Joseph]

The secular press is only slightly more ignorant about the Church than most Catholics.

Anyone familiar with the Papal Bull Quo Primum by Pope St. Pius V knows that it is impossible for the Vatican to abolish or restrict the Roman Mass.

Any priest can say that Mass whenever or whereever he so pleases.

The only obstacle to that Mass is our largely corrupt hierarchy, all of whom will one day answer to God for attempting to eliminate that Mass from the altars of the world.

I do not know how they sleep at night.

[RobbyS]

The liturgy was not supressed, only superceded as the noram by the new mass. But a bishop can forbid the old rite and many have done so, and ruthlessly. At the same time, they allow priests to monkey around with the new liturgy so that it hardly resembles what Rome prescribes.

[ex-snook]

What controversy? Who cares what the messenger believes? It is, as it was. That is all that matters.

[Antoninus]

They attend Mass in Latin, using a liturgy Rome abolished. They abstain from meat on Fridays and women cover their heads in church. For more than three decades, a small group of American Roman Catholics has been quietly worshipping in ways the Vatican told them to abandon.

What an idiotic way to start off this article. This bozo sounds like a CNN reporter describing anything having to do with the military.