[ninenot]

I can agree with you that 'restoration of the TLM,' even if it were universally mandated tomorrow, is NOT the answer in and of itself, despite the screeching from the SSPX bunch, all 120 of them...

OTOH, I would not be too quick to decide that the priest in the thread-head article is 'shallow.' Remember that newspaper reporters tend to be shallow...

[pascendi]

"I can agree with you that 'restoration of the TLM,' even if it were universally mandated tomorrow, is NOT the answer in and of itself, despite the screeching from the SSPX bunch, all 120 of them..."

We might agree on that, but we won't agree on this, I bet: the Novus Ordo Missae needs to be abrogated. It coddles to people with their spiritual minds made mush by worldly concerns. Every new Catholic soul is spiritual mush in the process of un-mushing itself, that's normal. But the Novus Ordo has a real flare for keeping them that way.

As for the SSPX, I don't think they believe that reinstituting the TLM would instantly solve all problems, because they know full well the Modernism lurks deeper than this. But reinstating the TLM still needs to be done, and eventually it will. A return to traditional Catholicism is needed for all rites across the board, but restoration of the liturgy is an additional, integral necessity for the Roman rite.

"OTOH, I would not be too quick to decide that the priest in the thread-head article is 'shallow.' Remember that newspaper reporters tend to be shallow..."

Let's hope not. Let's just so, I don't believe the article, and as for the priests, I'll believe it when I see it. I hope you're right and I'm wrong.