[miele man]

Thanks for posting this. I’ve long held Fr. Rutler in the highest regard. He surely is a towering theological intellect and in some ways he reminds me of Archbishop Fulton Sheen.

[piusv]

Two opposing interpretations of the Second Vatican Council divide the Catholic Church. This divide is more complex than the casual observer tends to appreciate. Within the complex divide, however, is a clear, simple divide: the familiar quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns. Each of the two parties is marked by a definite taste in liturgy, music, architecture, and art.

To state the divide is marked by "definite tastes in liturgy, etc" is to minimize the real problem which involves issues in matters of doctrine: religious liberty, false ecumenism and false unity. The so-called "Ancients" in this OP are merely the Catholics who "prefer" the Latin Mass and who totally miss the boat when it comes to the real issues of Modernism.

[NRx]

I dislike criticizing in strong terms other Christian confessions, or their clergy. But I am going to make an exception here. The photos of the church before the “wreckovation” were absolutely stunning. As an Orthodox Christian I would have had no great difficulty seeing the Divine Liturgy served there. What the new priest is doing strikes me as perilously close to the deliberate desecration of a sacred place. It is a modern form of iconoclasm. That, coupled with suggesting that longstanding members of the parish should leave causes me to believe he is at the very least not ready to be the pastor of a parish. At worst this is a gross abuse of his position.

His bishop really needs to step in before this gets out of hand.