Ping
” this was among the interpretations offered to me by various people: that it was diocesan priests, not the Institutes, which were the problem, because, in some parts of the world (read: the United States of America), they were “ideological” in their use of the old Mass. The cartoon version of this complaint I suppose would be that TC was needed to deal with gun-toting Trump supporters among secular clergy who celebrate the old Mass. “
Though Shaw discounts this hypothesis, I’m not so sure. “Conservative Americans” are Bergoglio’s great bogeymen.