[Catholic Caucus] Confined to the Reservation?

ut ad Sancta sanctorum puris mereamur mentibus ^ | February 23, 2022 | Archbishop Thomas Gullickson

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[Catholic Caucus] Confined to the Reservation?

Korazym.org (here) published in Italian a sort of odd article expressing skepticism over the intent of the particular audiences granted by Pope Francis to representatives of the FSSP on last February 4 and to Rev. Davide Pagliarani the Superior General of the FSSPX on February 8 and the consequent steps or declarations emanating from the Holy See.

    Korazym does not seem to make much of the papal document of February 11, securing for the FSSP and seemingly for all the other Ecclesia Dei Institutes the guarantee that their constitutions are held upright and in their own churches or houses or with the blessing of the local ordinary they can continue their mission rooted in the ancient usage for Holy Mass, the Sacraments, the Breviary and devotions. The Italian Catholic news service compared the move by the Pope to the historical creation of reservations in the wastelands of the United States for the sake of confining the native American peoples.

   Regardless of what you might think of that comparison, Korazym's intent was to clearly write off these recent events as nothing more than a malevolent strategy of containment on the part of the Holy Father, which in no way detracts from his endgame very much still at odds with Church Tradition and bent on consigning our liturgical patrimony to the dustbin of history once and for all.

    I guess for my part I have always underestimated the visceral hatred of the last elements standing of a generation older than mine, which since the 1950's at least have mindlessly pushed forward the "Star Trek" agenda of venturing where no man has gone before. Condemnations of "rigidity" are no more than a smokescreen to cover an old vendetta, rooted as much in a petty modernist agenda as in hatred of all things starched and trimmed with lace.

    Desperately holding to the Novus Ordo and the delusion that it might represent a way forward must be in its death throws. With confidence we will hold for tradition and the hope that true religion will stand forth upon the rubble of the edifice of the last 60 years marred as it is by violence and dissimulation.

PROPERANTES ADVENTUM DIEI DEI

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Gullickson was named Nuncio to Ukraine on May 21, 2011.^[8][9] While there, Gullickson posted on Twitter and on his blog his criticism of Pope Francis regarding family planning, the Eucharist,^[10] the Pope's criticism of the Roman Curia, and the Vatican's relations with Russia.^[11][12]

Gullickson has frequently expressed his preference for the Extraordinary Form of the Mass in which the priest faces the altar in the same direction as the congregation, as a step to renew what he sees as a proper sense of reverence for the liturgy.^[16][17][18]

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