Posted on 02/14/2023 6:20:02 PM PST by ebb tide
Cardinal Arthur Roche, prefect for the Liturgy, once again charges against the bishops who take advantage of the letter of Traditionis custodes so as not to exacerbate the prohibition of the Traditional Mass in their dioceses, demanding from them the "spirit" of what the Church wants. Holy Father. But he himself, being Bishop of Leeds in 2007, did everything he could not to apply Benedict's Summorum pontificum. Again the double yardstick.
Shortly after Pope Benedict XVI promulgated Summorum Pontificum in 2007, we read in the Catholic World Report, the then Bishop of Leeds issued an "interpretation" in which he did everything possible to annul the liberalization of the 'usus antiquior' that guaranteed the papal motu proprio and reduce it to irrelevance, hindering its application
For example, he insisted that parish priests could only introduce the Tridentine Mass if requested by a "stable group" of their faithful within their own parish, not from various parts of the diocese; he stated that the bishop had the authority to determine whether or not a priest was “qualified” to celebrate the Tridentine Mass.
He was, in short, the type of bishop that the then secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship was referring to when condemning "the interpretative documents that inexplicably aim to limit the Motu Proprio of the Pope" and insisting that such bishops were "being used as instruments of the devil."
Subsequently, the Vatican instruction Universae Ecclesiae corrected the first two points by stating that "a group can also be composed of people from different parishes or dioceses, who meet in a certain parish church or in an oratory or chapel for this purpose". that "every Catholic priest who is not impeded by canon law must be considered fit to celebrate Holy Mass in the extraordinary form" and that "the faculty to celebrate sine populo (or with the participation of a single minister) in the form of the Roman Rite is given by the Motu Proprio to all priests... therefore, priests, by provision of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, do not require any special permission from their Ordinaries or superiors." Permission would be needed from the parish priests, rectors of sanctuaries, etc for public Masses, but not from the diocesan bishop.
Además, el cardenal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, quien como presidente de la Comisión Ecclesia Dei estaba a cargo de supervisar el uso de la Misa Tridentina y quien ciertamente conocía la mente de Benedicto XVI, recordó que “el Santo Padre está dispuesto a ofrecer a todo el pueblo esta posibilidad, no sólo para los pocos grupos que lo demandan, sino para que todos conozcan esta forma de celebrar la Eucaristía en la Iglesia Católica”.
Catorce años después, la Latin Mass Society de Inglaterra y Gales emitió una interpretación canónica expansiva de Traditionis Custodes, al estilo del Roche de 2007, pero, en esta ocasión, el prefecto de la Congregación para el Culto Divino le escribió al cardenal Vincent Nichols, arzobispo de Westminster, condenando la interpretación de la Latin Mass Society por estar en desacuerdo con las intenciones del Papa.
Arthur Roche, now a cardinal, has contacted at least one bishop to insist that dispensing parishes from Traditionis Custodes is reserved to the Holy See despite the fact that such a claim is not contained in the motu proprio, and despite the fact that, according to canon law, the bishops have this power to dispense unless the law that regulates a certain matter expressly establishes otherwise.
Ping
hypocrites everywhere.
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