Fr. James Mawdsley offering a first Mass, 2016.
(LifeSiteNews) — An English priest has issued a blistering attack on Pope Francis and the Vatican hierarchy, saying that the Pope’s restrictions on the Latin Mass are an attack on “God’s revelation” and a rejection of Christ.
In a January 28 video, entitled “Why Withstand Pope Francis Publicly?” released on his YouTube channel, Fr. James Mawdsley responded to Pope Francis’ “attack on Tradition.
Responding to the pontiff’s July 2021 motu proprio Traditionis custodes, which ushered in sweeping restrictions on the traditional Mass, Fr. Mawdsley rebuffed the Pope’s claim that “the Novus Ordo constitutes the unique expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite.”
The Pope “impossibly claimed that the Novus Ordo constitutes the unique expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite,” declared Mawdsley.
As such, the former priest of the Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) stated that “it is important to withstand the Pope on this publicly.”