Posted on 07/16/2021 9:58:45 AM PDT by Marchmain
Pope Francis issued a motu proprio on Friday restricting Masses celebrated in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite.
In the motu proprio, issued July 16, the pope made sweeping changes to his predecessor Benedict XVI’s 2007 apostolic letter Summorum Pontificum, which acknowledged the right of all priests to say Mass using the Roman Missal of 1962.
In an accompanying letter to bishops explaining his decision, Pope Francis wrote: “In defense of the unity of the Body of Christ, I am constrained to revoke the faculty granted by my Predecessors. The distorted use that has been made of this faculty is contrary to the intentions that led to granting the freedom to celebrate the Mass with the Missale Romanum [Roman Missal] of 1962.”
The motu proprio, known as Traditionis custodes (“Guardians of the tradition”) and dedicated to “the use of the Roman Liturgy prior to the reform of 1970,” contains eight articles.
The first describes liturgical books issued by Paul VI and John Paul II after the Second Vatican Council as “the unique expression of the lex orandi [the law of prayer] of the Roman Rite.”
The second states that it is a bishop’s “exclusive competence” to authorize the use of the 1962 Roman Missal in his diocese.
The third sets out the responsibilities of bishops whose dioceses already have one or more groups that offer Mass in the extraordinary form.
It requires bishops to determine that these groups do not deny the validity of Vatican II and the Magisterium.
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My understanding is that Vatican II did NOT "dictate' any such thing, rather it permitted it.
Not sure it makes a difference? Pope Paul VI instituted the new liturgy in 1969, that was the huge shift for regular Catholics.
In truth, Francis is just another bishop, and doesn’t have the authority to tell the other bishops what they can and can’t do.
HA! Maybe you’re not Catholic? Pope has authority over the whole world, theologically speaking if not in reality.
He contradicts himself though. On the one hand, it’s the bishop’s “exclusive competence,” on the other hand, the bishop has to comply with a long set of arbitrary, invented rules whose only purpose is to inconvenience and marginalize Catholics who want to attend a TLM.
Pope bans mass being performed in Latin until Xi’s religion police have a chance to learn the language.
You’re right, a rather contrived power play, definitely not pastoral.
If Bergoglio really believed this, he’d end the Latin Rite altogether:
“Regrettably, the pastoral objective of my Predecessors, who had intended “to do everything possible to ensure that all those who truly possessed the desire for unity would find it possible to remain in this unity or to rediscover it anew”,[12] has often been seriously disregarded. An opportunity offered by St. John Paul II and, with even greater magnanimity, by Benedict XVI, intended to recover the unity of an ecclesial body with diverse liturgical sensibilities, was exploited to widen the gaps, reinforce the divergences, and encourage disagreements that injure the Church, block her path, and expose her to the peril of division.”
TLM bump
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