Rorate Caeli’s sources have been impeccable and dead-on accurate about this pontificate, so this is extremely worrisome. It’s also somewhat shocking because when you try something and it flops, it takes a special kind of hubris to triple down. “Traditiones custodes” has succeeded, I guess, in shutting down a handful of TLMs in places where the local bishop was already hostile. But when you see things like the Chartres pilgrimage where 20,000 people show up for TLM, and when Harrison Butker gives a speech in which he extolls the virtues of the TLM and gets 2.2 million views, how do a few SOBs in the Vatican possibly think they can wave just their magic wands and make all this go away?
You are correct. Here was Rorate Caeli's take on the day of Bergoglio's "election", back on March 13, 2013:
The Horror! A Buenos Aires journalist describes Bergoglio
Excerpt:
A sworn enemy of the Traditional Mass, he has only allowed imitations of it in the hands of declared enemies of the ancient liturgy. He has persecuted every single priest who made an effort to wear a cassock, preach with firmness, or that was simply interested in Summorum Pontificum.