“Our last pope made some suggestions about an optional private prayer, i.e. the Rosary, and all the Catholics leapt on it as a direct revelation from heaven which forbade any use of a traditional Rosary throughout the world.”
Ummm...huh?
I did not write the statement that you are quoting. I did, however, read of complaints that the Rosary prayer is discouraged in some churches, but for clarifications you probably need to ask Cothrige, who wrote it in post 18.
Ummm...huh?
Just ask yourself, how often do you encounter prayer books with the traditional format of the Rosary, or which lays out the traditional way of saying it daily? Do you see many churches or groups which say the Rosary publicly according to the traditional form? I don't. I haven't found a prayer book without the Luminous mysteries since they were suggested by Pope JPII. And yet they were optional suggestions given regarding a private prayer. I have had more than one person, when I mentioned that I don't like those mysteries, respond to me with references to needs for obedience. References to obedience, as well as the almost 100% and very enthusiastic adoption of them, show that people want to see these mysteries as much more than mere optional suggestions. And yet, when the pope teaches definitively on matters pertaining to the public worship of the Church, or actually legislates in his role as supreme pastor, what do people, especially priests and bishops, do? Ignore him of course. That has always been interesting to me.