Posted on 10/17/2021 5:24:35 PM PDT by marshmallow
Pope Francis’ restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass appear to be unpopular among regularly practicing Catholics, but most American Catholics have not even heard of the changes, a survey reports.
“Catholics who attend Mass weekly are both more likely to be aware of the new restrictions and more inclined to oppose them than Catholics who attend less frequently,” the Pew Research Center, which conducted the survey, said Oct. 7
About 58% of Catholics who attended Mass weekly had heard about the restrictions. Regular Mass attendees were the most sceptical of the Pope’s move. Of these, 29% disapproved of the new restrictions, 11% approved, while 17% had no opinion. However, 42% had not heard of the changes.
On July 16, in Traditionis custodes, Pope Francis issued rules giving a bishop “exclusive competence” to authorize the Traditional Latin Mass in his diocese. Bishops with groups celebrating this form of the liturgy in their dioceses are to ensure that the groups do not deny the validity of the Second Vatican Council. The council, held in the 1960s, preceded major changes in the Roman Catholic liturgy. These changes were codified in 1970 with St. Paul VI’s Roman Missal, the missal used in most Catholic parishes in vernacular languages.
The restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass are a break from the practice established in a 2007 apostolic letter from Benedict XVI, Summorum Pontificum, which had acknowledged the rights of all priests to offer the Mass according to the Roman Missal of 1962, promulgated by St. John XXIII.
Overall, some two-thirds of Catholics told Pew that they had heard “nothing at all” about the changes from Pope Francis, 28% had heard “only a little,” while 7% had heard “a lot.” Overall, 9% approved, 12% disapproved, and 14% declined to answer.
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Who said he was popular
“I am constrained to revoke the faculty granted by my predecessors.”
Antipope if there ever was one.
He’s not popular.
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He’s popular because the fake news throughout the world are 90% communist.
Bergoglio is popular with the mainstream media. They recognize that he’s an ally in transforming the Catholic Church from a counter-cultural force into a pathetic chaplaincy that enthusiastically accepts the full spectrum of the global left’s agenda (i.e., on LGBT, climate, migrants, borders, etc.). As such, Bergoglio’s corruption and deplorable personal character are ignored or excused by a media that has no desire hinder his demolition project.
Most rank-and-file Catholics in the pews aren’t fans of Bergoglio. Very few line up for his audiences. The extent that Catholics in the pews like him is pretty much down to fact that (1) they aren’t paying close attention to his antics; and (2) the little that they hear about him is filtered through a mainstream media that is sympathetic to.
This is but another example the Church gaslighting the public...the Pope IS NOT popular.
SMDH
Yeah, right. A Communist supporting abortion, gays, and opposing traditional Mass is popular.
And there was absolutely, positively no problems with the 2020 election also.
The ImPopester is only popular with the stupid.
Bergoglio the heretic and minion of Satan is only popular with those who hate religion in all its’ forms (i.e. atheists and democrats/socialists/communists).
Do t forget the I’ll-i formed. This churchgoing Catholic regards him as a heretic and a schismatic
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/10/07/two-thirds-of-u-s-catholics-unaware-of-popes-new-restrictions-on-traditional-latin-mass/
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/06/25/americans-including-catholics-continue-to-have-favorable-views-of-pope-francis/
Francis the Fake is less Popular than Clueless Joe.
Telling a pollster they have a “favorable” view of him doesn’t necessarily make them “fans.” Showing up at a papal audience means you’re a fan. Buying his book means you’re a fan. Very Catholics few listen to or care about anything Bergoglio says or does. He doesn’t have fans like John Paul II or even Benedict XVI had fans. The media constantly says he’s wonderful and rarely publishes anything the least bit negative about him, so why wouldn’t low-information folks say they have a “favorable” view?
Confidence in Pope Francis Down Sharply in U.S.
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