Posted on 07/18/2021 11:12:56 PM PDT by Marchmain
WASHINGTON – Earlier today, Pope Francis issued an apostolic letter, Traditionis custodes modifying the norms regulating the use of the 1962 Roman Missal issued before the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, issued the following statement in response:
“Today Pope Francis published Traditionis custodes, an Apostolic Letter issued motu proprio on the use of Latin liturgical texts approved prior to the reform of 1970. I welcome the Holy Father’s desire to foster unity among Catholics who celebrate the Roman Rite.
“As these new norms are implemented, I encourage my brother bishops to work with care, patience, justice, and charity as together we foster a Eucharistic renewal in our nation.”
The U.S. hierarchy in particular would have a huge problem implementing any kind of shutdown of the Latin Mass. Too many of the Latin Mass communities here operate in churches that were established under prior arrangements with the bishops, with many of these church buildings owned by separate organizations with lay board members. The local bishop simply doesn't have the legal authority to shut them down.
Dear USCCB,
The more you tighten your grip, Bishops, the more parishes will slip through your fingers.
What happened to “diversity”?
Is it possible that the Argentine and his group will lead Catholics down the road taken by Anglicans? And that the Church will be saved by Lefevbre and the Latin Mass?
USCCB President Gomez is my Archbishop. I have never noticed him having any agenda against the Latin Rite.
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