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[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Cordileone: "Church Has Lost Sense of Continuity in Liturgy"Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, USA, spoke with Rev. Javier Olivera Ravasi on YouTube about the crisis of the Church and liturgy. Main points.- A sin is a sin because it goes against our human good, not because God or clergymen have made a list of acts.- The problem with the 'new Mass' is that if it is new today, it will be old tomorrow, and thus become a thing of the past.- Young people today see how the Novus Ordo is celebrated in many parishes and view...

Bishop Strickland: Novus Ordo Mass, priestly formation have led to problems in the ChurchBishop Joseph Strickland said the ‘more comfortable’ Novus Ordo Mass has shifted priests toward acting like ‘social workers’ and declared that the Latin Mass ‘will stay with us’ in a recent interview.Bishop Joseph Strickland said that the shift to the Novus Ordo Mass from the Traditional Latin Mass has led to a decline in the priesthood and called out the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) for pushing bishops to “forget that they’re successors of the Apostles.” The former bishop of Tyler, Texas, who was removed...