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Obvious. Its OK for Sink to post threads insulting to the Pope and encouraging disobedience, but Trads will be banned for same. The point is obviously the same old one: "why Double standard?"

Of course, I'm Byzantine Catholic, so I don't really have a dog in your fight against traditionalists. I can tell you, however, that many Byzantine Catholic priests feel the Novus Ordo was a grave mistake, that will be supplanted by a liturgy more closely resembling the old Latin one.

They know this intuitively by comparing the vernacularization of the Divine Liturgy (in the 1950s) with the vernacularization of the Latin liturgy two decades later.

The Byzantine Divine Liturgy maintained pride of place for the sacred character of the Sacrifice of the Mass and the priesthood itself. No western liberal agenda infected its translation; no protestant-like phraseology invaded its language.

Byzantine Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox pay far more attention to how Rome treats "tradition" than us westerners realize, and the patronizing attitude of the Novus Ordo supporters towards tradition plays a very large role in the reticence of the East to broach the subject of reunion.

This obviously violates thespirit with which Pope JPII approaches the Eastern Churches, and as such is wrong.