The funny thing is, I don't hear ANYONE screaming to bring back the old BREVIARIUM ROMANUM with its Three-Nocturned Matins, Prime and the beefed-up Little Hours, and 150 Psalms spread out during the week.
Although with extraordinary ministers doing almost all the communion calls around this town and the schools closed down, you'd think the priests who are left would have plenty of time to go back to the old Office.
Of course, during the Council, Francis Cardinal Spellman lobbied passionately for the retention of Latin in the Mass but in favor of the Breviary in the vernacular (he had even sponsored what he thought would become the priest's Breviary of the future, the famous Nelson translation in four volumes which sells for in the hundreds on eBay although it's a horrible translation with the rubrics in BLACK) . . .
This led an Italian bishop to exclaim, "Questi Americani! Now they want the people to pray in Latin and the priest to pray in English!"
But almost everyone seems content with what one wag calls "The Little Office of Vatican II"!
This source seems to have a Lefebvrist bias. The late archbishop was excommunicated for illicitly ordaining bishops in violation of a direct order from the Pope.
Hard to keep count of the errors and half-truhs in this article.
"Lefebvre's traditionalist followers"
Who are in fact schismatics who separated themselves from the Roman church.
Turns out this is the same recycled story which has been doing the rounds since last year. Plus an extra few inaccuracies thrown in for good measure.
God Bless and protect the Pope!
Is this the same Motu Proprio that was expected last year during Holy Week? Maybe we'll see it promulgated this Holy Thursday?