Posted on 01/08/2026 2:10:37 PM PST by ebb tide
Some cardinals and faithful who have a devotion to the traditional Roman rite have expressed concern that the liturgy appears to be sidelined in the extraordinary consistory currently underway at the Vatican after the cardinals voted to give priority to other issues on the agenda.
In his opening address to the consistory yesterday, Pope Leo XIV reaffirmed to the cardinal participants that they will have the opportunity to “engage in a communal reflection” on four themes already pre-announced to be on the meeting’s agenda.
Those topics, he said, were Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium “that is, the mission of the Church in today’s world,” Praedicate Evangelium, the late pope’s apostolic constitution reforming the Roman Curia; the Synod and synodality “as both an instrument and a style of cooperation” and the liturgy, “the source and summit of the Christian life.”
But Leo added that “due to time constraints, and in order to encourage a genuinely in-depth analysis, only two of them will be discussed specifically."
The cardinals were then asked to make clear which two of the four they would want to be specifically debated and, according to Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni, “a large majority” decided the topics would be “evangelization and the Church’s missionary activity drawn from rereading Evangelii Gaudium,” and “the Synod and synodality.” The Pope later thanked the cardinals for making the choice, adding: “The other themes are not lost. There are very concrete, specific issues that we still need to address.”
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They will waste time and hopefully their generation of selfish and sinful abuses will be ended after they die out.
Whenever I am forced by circumstance to have to read modernist encyclicals or other pronouncements- I am often reminded of the description of the pronouncements of an Imperial ambassador to an outer planet in Asimov’s foundation —
“Lundin Crast said, “And where is the analysis?” “That,” replied Hardin, “is the interesting thing. The analysis was the most difficult of the three by all odds. When Holk, after two days of steady work, succeeded in eliminating meaningless statements, vague gibberish, useless qualifications—in short, all the goo and dribble—he found he had nothing left. Everything canceled out. “Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn’t say one damned thing, and said it so you never noticed. There are the assurances you had from your precious Empire.”
But Leo added that “due to time constraints, and in order to encourage a genuinely in-depth analysis, only two of them will be discussed specifically.” Why a time constraint? Discussing centuries of the Catholic Church is too much time spent?
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