[mike182d]

"You didn't look hard enough."

I've spent 15 minutes reading and sifting through that gratiutously wordy letter and cannot find anything. There is nothing Benedict XVI said that advocates of the Norvus Ordo Mass, such as myself, wouldn't say about the current state of the Liturgy.

Yes, the Liturgy has fallen...but not because its a Norvus Ordo mass.

Yes, the Tridentine Rite should not be surpressed...but not by the removal of the Novus Ordo Mass.

You seem to be putting words in Benedict's mouth. Please provide me a quote from Benedict where he actually blames the Novus Ordo Mass itself and not the horrendous abuses.

[murphE]

You said:

To criticize the Novus Ordo Mass is to say that Christ lied and that the Church failed to protect what was most Sacred

Pope Benedict XXI as Cardinal Ratzinger has said:

[describing the de facto suppression of the traditional Latin Mass Pope Paul VI]-“a breach into the history of the liturgy whose consequences could only be tragic.”

He has also said,

“I am convinced that the ecclesial crisis in which we find ourselves today depends in great part on the collapse of the liturgy.”

and also referred to the NO as:

“fabricated liturgy… a banal, on-the-spot product.”

So, are you accusing the pope of "say[ing] that Christ lied and that the Church failed to protect what was most Sacred"?