Pope Francis on Feb. 14: "Old Mass? Just a kind of fashion!"

However, he made a quite strong statement when he said that he understands when the old generation returns to what it experienced, but that he cannot understand the younger generation wishing to return to it.

Seriously, that was the nicest I could come up with.

A “pope” stating that the liturgy of hundreds of years is just a @#$#*$%( fashion.

How long Lord until you deliver us from the wolves?

Dear God, have mercy.

I have to side with Pope Benedict XVI-

"What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful. It behooves all of us to preserve the riches which have developed in the Church’s faith and prayer, and to give them their proper place."

Forgot to post the link:

Pope Francis on Feb. 14: "Old Mass? Just a kind of fashion!"

He seems to be an ignorant cafeteria Catholic, who doesn’t understand the Theology embedded in the Liturgy.

The “ideas” embedded into the Liturgy and Traditions IS the Catholic Church.....and he is throwing out the Catholic Canon—and the Thomism (Reason and Logic and Faith) of the Catholic Church—the same as Vatican II did to create a “Church of Nice”—ecumenicalism to eliminate Truth/God—and create a Church to worship Man and remove God.

The more this pope “talks”, the more he reveals he is one of those “Progressive” Jesuits who were so destructive to the education of the masses who literally created “social” “justice” (such an irrational use of the word “Justice”) for the Marxist takeover of the Catholic Churches around the world.

And the Catholic Church used to wield the Sword of Truth.....totally emasculated now with Socialism (which ROTS the Soul). Sickening.

Francis is the Obama of Catholicism.

Not just disregard for history and what brought us to this place in time, but outright hostility to it.

Must Catholics froth at everything Francis says? Did you miss him saying “We must go deep”? and that, missing the substance, no “moda” will compensate?

Learn from Hebrews about shadows, mere “copies of the heavenly things”. You cherish ancient ritual? Bid farewell to Rome and head back to Sinai!

Or don’t, and simply realize Jesus is “better”.

Protestantism’s much ballyhooed schisms have strong competition from supposedly unified Rome.

Ok Pope Frankie —what do you want to see - an even larger contingent going over to the Bishop Lefebre group? —because they will. Most traditionalists, especially the younger ones, don’t think what they’re doing is either fashionable or whimsical. They’re serious. If it weren’t for groups like The Society of St. Peter (Vatican approved) more people would have gone Society of St. Pius X —Lefebre group. The question is —how much is a traditional latin catholic going to contort over being schismatic or beng forced to have the Novus Ordo as they’re only choice. The last 2 popes did a splendid job at making a place at the table for both kinds of people. Frankie, whatcha gonna do?

It’s as if this pope wants schism.

Oh, he must have been taken out of context. I can’t believe Pope Rock Star would ever say this.

PLEASE!

The blame rests on the Vatican translation team. They are the worst in the world.

Frankly, it is practically a jobs program for the unfortunate, equivalent to the sign language interpreter Obama used in Africa.

Please review and compare: http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/15/obama-gets-the-fake-sign-language-interpreter-treatment-on-snl/

In other words, you are getting all torqued out of shape due to bad translation and media bias...

Can he possibly be THAT shallow?

You may be on to something there. I have felt that I’m being pushed away by this pope.

He's sounding more like Ubama every day.

I wonder if he's an Alinskyite?

Searchig for love (of the traditional Mass) in all the wrong places

Rorate Caeli has a rather disturbing, but unsurprising, post concerning the Holy Father’s view of the traditional Mass and the younger generation’s attachment to it.

Speaking to the Bishops of the Czech Republic during their recent ad limina visit, the pope said (according to Archbishop Jan Graubner who was present):

…he cannot understand the younger generation wishing to return to it [the ancient liturgy]. “When I search more thoroughly – the Pope said – I find that it is rather a kind of fashion. And if it is a fashion, therefore it is a matter that does not need that much attention. It is just necessary to show some patience and kindness to people who are addicted to a certain fashion. But I consider greatly important to go deep into things, because if we do not go deep, no liturgical form, this or that one, can save us.“

“Search more thoroughly…” Really?

I wonder exactly where this thorough search took place. If it was in His Holiness’ former See, the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires, perhaps that’s the problem.

Had he visited and searched a different diocese, you know… one with a healthy liturgical life wherein the traditional Mass is routinely made available to the faithful, he would have discovered what most everyone reading this blog already knows:

The devotion of the younger generation to the traditional Mass has nothing whatsoever to do with fashion; it has to do with a deep seated desire for authentic Catholic worship, unencumbered by anthropocentrism, protestantism and modernism.

As a matter of fact, Pope Francis has it exactly backwards.

The less-than-fifty year old rite invented by the Consilium and mercilessly inflicted upon the Church by Pope Paul VI, that is merely a fashion, and a passing one at that.

If the witness of the last eleven months tells us anything at all about this pope, it’s that he has no interest whatsoever in taking on the “smell of traditional Catholic sheep.”

They represent the solitary group toward which he has demonstrated exactly no “patience and kindness” whatsoever, choosing instead to belittle their spiritual offerings while hurling insults at them at every possible opportunity.

Either Archbishop Graubner’s recollection is seriously flawed, or he and his brother bishops just had their collective legs pulled.

The less-than-fifty year old rite invented by the Consilium and mercilessly inflicted upon the Church by Pope Paul VI, that is merely a fashion, and a passing one at that.

It's not passing quick enough.

And if it is a fashion, therefore it is a matter that does not need that much attention. It is just necessary to show some patience and kindness to people who are addicted to a certain fashion.

Could he be any more condescending?? Crazy that the whole world thinks he's so humble. His Holiness is without a doubt the least humble pontiff in recent memory.

The blame rests on the Vatican translation team. They are the worst in the world.

Since when? I don't recall this extreme, pervasive translation problem under Pope Benedict (and he's only been gone a year).