[Catholic Caucus] DC's Cardinal Gregory The Latest To Bare His Teeth At Faithful Catholics Attending The Traditional Latin Mass

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[Catholic Caucus] DC's Cardinal Gregory The Latest To Bare His Teeth At Faithful Catholics Attending The Traditional Latin Mass

We've been anticipating this for quite some time, especially after Cardinal Cupich stated that the Institute of Christ the King would be personae non gratia starting August 1st.  Well, here it is - the official assassin's bullet from Cardinal Gregory.  It is just as draconian and tyrannical as is Traditionis Custodes.

Read that thing.  He starts off with a lot of compliments for those attending Latin Mass, but it's really just a butter-up job.  After dispensing with those pleasantries, Gregory gets down to business.  To wit:

• Traditional Latin Mass can only be celebrated in three non-parochial locations in the DC diocese.  St. Mary's in Chinatown, where the Traditional Latin Mass has been celebrated for many years, is not one of them.
• They can only be celebrated on Sunday - in other words, no Latin weekday Masses.
• Priests must apply for permission to celebrate the Latin Mass, even as a private Mass
• Masses for Christmas, the Triduum, Easter and Pentecost must be celebrated in the Novus Ordo.  The TLM is forbidden for these holy days
• All other sacraments must be administered in the Novus Ordo rites.
• Scripture readings must be given in the vernacular, with a translation approved by the USCCB.  Since the readings are always repeated in the vernacular, I can only suppose that giving the readings in Latin will be forbidden.

Why would these prelates wish the obliteration of the Latin Mass?  At those Masses, one can understand the majesty of God and the immensity of the Sacrifice of Christ.  The latter happens at each Mass, albeit in an unbloody manner.  The attendees are there to worship God, not to have warm-fuzzies types of experiences.  Yes, there is community, but that happens after Mass, in the church lobby.  There is always reverential silence before the Blessed Sacrament.  By the way - young people are flocking to these Masses after having been gypped so long by Novus Ordo Masses with their stripped-down prayers and human-centered atmosphere.  The Latin Mass is the Mass of the Ages, having produced saints for over 1,000 years.

I started that last paragraph with a question.  The following sentences described benefits that should give the prelates pause in their attempts to quash the Latin Mass, but in reality they are the very reasons why these prelates, many of them progressives and/or masons, have a visceral hatred of that Mass.  They not only lack supernatural faith in God, but actually harbor animosity towards Him.  Even the Washington Post looks askance upon Gregory's vindictiveness towards the Latin Mass.

Vox Cantoris reproduced an open letter by Archbishop Vigano who unpacked the implications of Cupich's assault upon the Catholic faith.  That was before Gregory pulled his stunt today, but I believe what is said about Cupich also applies to Gregory.  He is correct in saying that neither Cupich, nor Gregory, nor even the pope have any right to deprive us of the Mass of the Ages.  The bull of Pope Saint Pius V, Quo Primum, states quite as much.

So once again we are put in the position of having to resist clerical tyranny, but resist we must.  The tactic of "going along to get along" is simply not morally permissible.  So what to do?  First, find a Traditional Latin Mass in another diocese.  They are happening in northern Virginia and Baltimore.  Take yourselves - and your money - there.  Yes, it seems like money is one of the few languages these corrupt shepherds understand, so we must speak it.  Keep protesting the chancery.  Raise protest, especially at events where the cardinal appears; in those cases, be respectful but firm.

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St. Pius X Chapel

Washington, D.C., Mission
of the Society of St. Pius X

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Ping

[ought-six]

Vatican II did soooo much damage to the Church.

[Missouri gal]

All the exorcists tell us that the devil hates prayers in Latin. Kinda suggests something about these red hats, no?

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

If Jesus didn’t want the spirit of V2, the Norvus Ordo, we wouldn’t have it, or the Holocaust, or the Soviet Union, or the suppression of the Jesuits, or the Reformation or pedo homosexual priests or 60 years of zero catechesis or abortion or gay marriage...
No, we brought this on ourselves through lay cowardice, lay ignorance. I will receive the sacrements whenever Jesus wants me to have them in their last known honorable form. Trust the science of the saints.

[chopperk]

Thought it was a Cdl’s job to bring souls to Christ not crap on them.

[jocon307]

Yep to that.

But what is this “many of them progressives and/or masons”

Are there RC Clergy who are Masons? I always remember my mom telling me her father was asked to join the Masons on a few occasions but always declined because he was a Roman Catholic.

[Ann Archy]

A Catholic is only allowed to be a FIRST DEGREE.......past that. it's a RELIGION......that's what I've been told.

My grandfather was a 32nd DEGREE Mason, and then he got BAPTIZED right before he died.

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Interview with Fr. Murr, Author of "Murder in the 33rd Degree: The Gagnon Investigation into Vatican Freemasonry"

[Secret Agent Man]

Bet he was surprised that you can’t get into Heaven on what a person considers a technicality.

[Ann Archy]

Don’t know....as a Catholic, we are not allowed to judge who goes to heaven and who doesn’t.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Who be dis Cardinal Greg Whory?

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Who be dis Cardinal Greg Whory?

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Who be dis Cardinal Greg Whory?

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He, along with McElroy, Nighty-Nite Tobin and Cupich, are Bergoglio’s frankencardinals.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Oh, he be dat fat black guy in Washington.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Oh, he be dat fat black guy in Washington.

[Secret Agent Man]

You know God can’t be played by someone like that.

You know the whole “deathbed recant” thing doesn’t work to allow a person to deliberately live crappy their entire lives, and then in one phony sentence be absolved of everything.

Come on now. God isn’t played by anyone like that.

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Fat, black, racist and an apostate.

[NorthMountain]

Some people call him “The African Queen” ...