[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Naumann and Bishop Paprocki Speak Out in Support of Traditional Latin Massgoers in Their Dioceses

National Catholic Register ^ | March 3, 2023 | Tyler Arnold

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Archbishop Naumann and Bishop Paprocki Speak Out in Support of Traditional Latin Massgoers in Their Dioceses

In the wake of new restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass, two American bishops spoke with EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo Thursday about how their dioceses have responded.

Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois, and Archbishop Joseph Naumann of the Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas, both defended the traditional Latin Mass communities within their dioceses during their interviews on The World Over with Raymond Arroyo March 2. 

Pope Francis issued a motu proprio titled Traditionis Custodes on July 16, 2021, which put heavy restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass. The order directed bishops to designate locations for the traditional Latin Mass but stated none of the locations should be within parish churches. Because a lot of dioceses already had thriving Latin Mass communities within parishes, some bishops offered dispensations, which allowed those Masses to continue as before.

Cardinal Arthur Roche, the prefect for the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, issued a rescript on Feb. 21, which is a formal clarification from the Vatican. It stated that such dispensations are reserved to the Holy See and ordered bishops who had issued those dispensations to “inform the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, which will evaluate the individual cases.”

Bishop Paprocki said during the EWTN interview that he questions “the wisdom” of the rescript and suggested that it “seems to contradict what Pope Francis himself said when he issued the motu proprio,” which Bishop Paprocki interpreted to say that bishops had discretion to decide how to implement the restrictions “on a case-by-case basis” within their dioceses.

In addition, Bishop Paprocki questioned the legal basis for not allowing the dispensations already granted by bishops to remain in effect.

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[I want the USA back]

Some of the people want a Latin mass. They should have it.

Why does this imposter pope want to do away with it? Is it a kind of litmus test? If you like the Latin mass you are a person who believes in what has been traditionally been believed and don’t like the modernistic crap that is being foisted on us?

Why do the pope and the fbi agree on this one thing: Latin mass lover = subversive who needs to be put down.

Give the the Latin mass.

[MortMan]

Bishop Naumann is a faithful shepherd.

[jocon307]

“Why do the pope and the fbi agree on this one thing: Latin mass lover = subversive who needs to be put down.”

Yes, that synchronicity is very disturbing. Does Bergoglio go to Davos? Globalism is a bad thing, very bad. Isn’t that the meaning of the Tower of Babel?

[Mark]

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