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  • [Catholic Caucus] French Canonist Questions the Legality of Mandating Priests to Concelebrate the Mass

    03/04/2024 1:18:19 PM PST · by ebb tide · 4 replies
    National Catholic Register ^ | March 4, 2024 | Edward Pentin
    [Catholic Caucus] French Canonist Questions the Legality of Mandating Priests to Concelebrate the MassIs mandatory concelebration coherent with the Second Vatican Council and canon law?Traditional Latin Mass inside St Peter's Basilica on Oct. 30, 2021.Reports have circulated for several years now of Catholic priests being told to cease saying private Masses by themselves and celebrate with other priests instead, a practice called concelebration.In 2021, for example, the Vatican banned priests from saying private Masses at the above-ground altars in St. Peter’s Basilica. The edict was later eased after a public outcry, but concelebration in the basilica is now “the norm.”...
  • [Catholic Caucus] EXCLUSIVE: Pope Francis defends restrictions on Latin Mass – ‘Read the motu proprio’

    01/22/2024 9:29:20 AM PST · by ebb tide · 20 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | January 22, 2024 | Michael Haynes
    [Catholic Caucus] EXCLUSIVE: Pope Francis defends restrictions on Latin Mass – ‘Read the motu proprio’In new comments to LifeSiteNews, Pope Francis said that his reasons for suppressing the Traditional Latin Mass are all contained within his 2021 document 'Traditionis Custodes.'In new comments to LifeSiteNews, Pope Francis said that his reasons for suppressing the Traditional Latin Mass are all contained within his 2021 document 'Traditionis Custodes.' The motu proprio in question is the July 2021 text Traditionis Custodes, by which Francis ushered in sweeping restrictions on the traditional liturgy – also known as the Latin Mass, or the Extraordinary Form –...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Archbishop of Detroit issues new Latin Mass restrictions in conformity with Vatican rescript

    05/15/2023 6:18:15 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 9 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | May 15, 2023 | Brian Mershon
    [Catholic Caucus] Archbishop of Detroit issues new Latin Mass restrictions in conformity with Vatican rescriptIn response to Cardinal Arthur Roche's February rescript, Abp. Allen Vigneron has asked parishes to seek alternative buildings to continue offering the Traditional Latin Mass.DETROIT (LifeSiteNews) — In response to Cardinal Arthur Roche’s February rescript, the Archbishop of Detroit has asked parishes to seek alternative buildings to continue offering the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM).The Most Rev. Allen Vigneron issued new guidelines on May 5, the Feast Day of Pope St. Pius V, requesting that pastors of parishes offering the TLM find a new location for the...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Latin Mass to be canceled at Oklahoma parish as Vatican dispensation expires

    05/15/2023 7:24:19 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 2 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | May 12, 2023 | Brian Mershon
    [Catholic Caucus] Latin Mass to be canceled at Oklahoma parish as Vatican dispensation expiresSt. Monica Catholic Church in Edmond, a suburb of Oklahoma City, will lose its Traditional Latin Mass in June.EDMOND, Oklahoma (LifeSiteNews) — A Traditional Latin Mass in the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City will be eliminated next month once a dispensation from the Vatican expires.St. Monica Catholic Church, located in the Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond, is a growing, vibrant parish led by Father Stephen Hamilton that offers the TLM Monday through Friday during the school year, in addition to a once-per-month Sunday TLM.In a gut-wrenching sermon on...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Parisian traditionalists gather to question Cardinal Roche; Roche cancels, and then French bishops try to escape through the back door

    05/12/2023 7:16:03 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 4 replies
    Rorate Caeli ^ | May 12, 2023 | Peter Kwasniewski
    [Catholic Caucus] Parisian traditionalists gather to question Cardinal Roche; Roche cancels, and then French bishops try to escape through the back doorAt “L’homme nouveau”, Maitena Urbistondoy writes about the rather exciting goings-on in Paris on May 11, 2023. Translated for Rorate.—PAKThis Thursday, May 11, the Extraordinary National Days of the National Service for Liturgical and Sacramental Pastoral Care (SNPLS) come to a close in Paris. Cardinal Arthur Roche, Prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, accompanied by Archbishop Guy de Kérimel of Toulouse, was to preside over the two days of conferences intended for...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Trail of chaos left by Cardinal Roche. He is now destroying the liturgy in the way he destroyed his diocese.

    05/11/2023 7:17:42 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 2 replies
    Catholic Conclave ^ | May 11, 2023 | CathCon
    [Catholic Caucus] Trail of chaos left by Cardinal Roche. He is now destroying the liturgy in the way he destroyed his diocese.Cardinal Roche: his strange management methods in LeedsPaix Liturgique has investigated Cardinal Roche, once bishop of Leeds where he left some bitter memories to say the least - a method that led to the total failure, human, pastoral, financial, that he is now replicating with the traditional Mass and its faithful...the result risks being the same."Before becoming Cardinal-Prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship in Rome, responsible for the implementation of Desirio desideravi, the Franciscan charter for the new...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Catholics Protest: Cowardly Roche Chickens Out

    05/11/2023 5:16:54 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 1 replies
    Gloria TV ^ | May 11, 2023 | Gloria TV
    [Catholic Caucus] Catholics Protest: Cowardly Roche Chickens OutOn 10 May, the French bishops organised a meeting in Paris on liturgical and sacramental issues with Cardinal Roche, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Liturgy.When the Catholics learned of the forthcoming event, Roche cancelled his presence at short notice and sent his secretary, Monsignor Viola, instead. The Catholics did in fact attend, displaying banners reading "No to the liturgical war" (Riposte-Catholique.fr).For a service in the church of Honoré d'Eylau, the Novus Ordo bishops locked themselves in and threw the Catholics out (video below). In the end, the prelates sheepishly left the...
  • [Catholic Caucus] "It is not the traditionalists, but Roche who ignores the Council": Luisella Scrosati's latest column

    04/10/2023 8:24:27 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 6 replies
    Rorate Caeli ^ | April 6, 2023 | Luisella Scrosati
    [Catholic Caucus] "It is not the traditionalists, but Roche who ignores the Council": Luisella Scrosati'sThe prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship, Cardinal Arthur Roche, just cannot seem to show that he has at least some familiarity with the role he has been wretchedly entrusted with. Or rather, to give the appearance of it he should systematically keep quiet. But, how does one do that? A Dicastery prefect sooner or later has to say something if someone asks him questions....The fact is that it took less than thirty seconds (here from minute 10:37) of response to a BBC.com report on...
  • [Catholic Caucus] The Roche Rescript impoverishes the whole Church, says Chairman of Latin Mass Society

    04/03/2023 4:00:22 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 10 replies
    Catholic Herald ^ | April 1, 2023 | Joseph Shaw
    [Catholic Caucus] The Roche Rescript impoverishes the whole Church, says Chairman of Latin Mass Society Seminarians of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP) prepare to receive minor orders at WigratzbadSince Pope Francis’s Apostolic Letter Traditionis Custodes in 2021, congregations attending the pre-Vatican II Traditional Latin Mass (TLM), have been living on borrowed time. Pope Francis announced that he wished to enforce “single and identical prayer” and to this end deprecated the use of parish churches for the liturgy of the TLM. The Dicastery for Divine Worship later explained that “the exclusion of the parish church is intended to affirm...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Roman Trads Plead with the Holy Father to Listen

    03/29/2023 6:19:20 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 4 replies
    One Peter Five ^ | March 28, 2023 | Aurelio Porfiri
    [Catholic Caucus] Roman Trads Plead with the Holy Father to ListenAbove: placard set up today in Rome quoting Pope St. John Paul II praising the Latin Mass. English translation here. Photo by Messainlatin.it.For the love of the Pope For the peace and unity of the Church For the liberty of the traditional Latin MassOne of the elements for which the pontificate of Pope Francis will be remembered will certainly be for his very severe measures towards those who find the Latin Mass to be a more worthy way of giving glory to God than in the new Mass. These measures...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Roche on the Vatican II Rupture

    03/26/2023 12:04:46 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 2 replies
    One Peter Five ^ | March 24, 2023 | Joseph Shaw
    [Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Roche on the Vatican II RuptureAbove: Bishop Athanasius Schneider offers the Holy Mass at St. Peter’s church in Steubenville, Ohio, United States. Photo by Allison Girone.As I recently wrote on Catholic Answers, the confusion surrounding the meaning of Traditionis custodes, and its flotilla of supplementary documents, is beginning to resemble that around Amoris Laetitia. I was talking specifically about the purpose of the document: what vision of the ecclesial landscape inspires it. Here I want to focus on the equally opaque reasoning behind it.Last Sunday BBC Radio 4 aired a short report on the Traditional Mass. They...
  • [Catholic Caucus] The Vatican Agrees with Radical Traditionalists

    03/24/2023 9:59:59 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 4 replies
    National Review ^ | March 22, 2023 | Michael Brendan Dougherty
    [Catholic Caucus] The Vatican Agrees with Radical TraditionalistsIn a stunning interview, Cardinal Archbishop Arthur Roche, the man the Vatican has placed in charge of extinguishing the Traditional Latin Mass that Benedict XVI in 2007 had widely permitted, admitted in an interview with the BBC that Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and his radical traditionalist followers are right — that the faith once delivered to the saints has been abolished and substituted by the Church in the 1960s.“The theology of the Church has changed,” argued Roche. “Whereas before the priest represented, at a distance, all the people — they were channeled through this...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Cdl. Roche says Latin Mass needs to be restricted because the ‘theology of the Church has changed’

    03/20/2023 8:09:07 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 7 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | March 20, 2023 | Michael Haynes
    [Catholic Caucus] Cdl. Roche says Latin Mass needs to be restricted because the ‘theology of the Church has changed’Cardinal Arthur Roche's latest claim to defend the restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass runs in opposition to the teaching of popes throughout history.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Defending the increasing restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass, Cardinal Arthur Roche – who leads the Vatican’s Congregation (now Dicastery) for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments – stated that “the theology of the Church has changed.”Speaking on BBC Radio 4 for a program aired March 19, Roche defended the restrictions on the Traditional...
  • [Catholic Caucus] ‘Brutal intolerance’: Cdl. Müller condemns Pope Francis’ latest attack on Traditional Latin Mass

    03/12/2023 6:28:26 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 6 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | March 11, 2023 | David McLoone
    [Catholic Caucus] ‘Brutal intolerance’: Cdl. Müller condemns Pope Francis’ latest attack on Traditional Latin MassGerman Cardinal Gerhard Müller joins a chorus of voices defending the Church’s liturgical tradition against the Pope's continued crackdown.German Cardinal Gerhard Müller has condemned the Vatican’s recently approved Rescript further restricting the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM).In comments to Spanish Catholic news outlet InfoVaticana, Müller, a former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, denounced Cardinal Arthur Roche’s centralization of power over the celebration of the TLM.“Pope Benedict overcame the tensions that had arisen in a theologically competent and pastorally sensitive...
  • [Catholic Caucus] What is the Vatican’s Target?

    03/06/2023 9:09:23 AM PST · by ebb tide · 1 replies
    One Peter Five ^ | March 6, 2023 | Allen Ruhl
    [Catholic Caucus] What is the Vatican’s Target?Quoth TC:It belongs to the diocesan bishop, as moderator, promoter, and guardian of the whole liturgical life of the particular Church entrusted to him, to regulate the liturgical celebrations of his diocese. Therefore, it is his exclusive competence to authorize the use of the 1962 Roman Missal in his diocese, according to the guidelines of the Apostolic See.As the document goes on, the only thing firmly stated that needs to be approved by the Apostolic See is permission for priests ordained after July 16, 2021 to say the Latin Mass. When one reads TC...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Vatican Refuses ALL Requests To Celebrate Mass

    02/26/2023 2:53:56 PM PST · by ebb tide · 1 replies
    Gloria TV ^ | February 26, 2023 | Gloria TV
    [Catholic Caucus] Vatican Refuses ALL Requests To Celebrate MassThe current Vatican will not give "permissions" to priests ordained after Traditionis Custodes to celebrate Mass, CatholicHerald.co.uk (February 24) has learned.Gloria.tv has reported on this rigidity several times since Traditionis custodes. The latest Francis rescript claims that bishops must seek permission from the Dicastery for Divine Worship to "allow" a newly-ordained priest to offer Mass.Father Gerald Murray told EWTN.com (February 23) that the July 2021 text of Traditionis Custodes states that the bishop is only required to “consult” with the Holy See regarding newly-ordained priests.Only a later Latin translation, the existence of...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Letter from Rome: the Roche rescript comes with all the zeal of Saul the Pharisee

    02/25/2023 12:25:52 PM PST · by ebb tide · 3 replies
    Catholic Herald ^ | February 24, 2023 | Diane Montagna
    [Catholic Caucus] Letter from Rome: the Roche rescript comes with all the zeal of Saul the PhariseeStill breathing threats against the Church’s ancient liturgy in a way not unlike Saul’s persecution in Acts 9:1, Cardinal Arthur Roche has now begun strong-arming bishops to “ensure the correct application” of Pope Francis’s 2021 apostolic letter restricting the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM), Traditionis Custodes.The latest crackdown by the prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has come in a rescript that severely restricts the freedom of bishops in matters of the TLM and their autonomy as “directors,...
  • [Catholic Caucus] "Why take away from traditionalists what John Paul II and Benedict XVI had granted?"

    02/24/2023 3:50:31 PM PST · by ebb tide · 5 replies
    Rorate Caeli ^ | February 24, 2023 | Christophe Dickès: "Why take away from traditionalists what John Paul II and Benedict XVI had
    [Catholic Caucus] "Why take away from traditionalists what John Paul II and Benedict XVI had granted?"(From Le Figaro, February 22, 2023) -- While Pope Francis drastically reduces the freedom of traditionalists, historian Christophe Dickès recalls the richness and fruitfulness of these minorities within the Catholic Church. Author of numerous works, Christophe Dickès has notably published "Saint Pierre" (Perrin, 2021), which received the François Millepierres prize of the French Academy 2022.The Lenten season for traditional Catholics begins with sorrow. The one in charge of liturgical matters at the Vatican, Cardinal Roche, who has never hidden his opposition to the work of...
  • [Catholic Caucus] “Mediocre Roche came in for an Apostolic Constitution, and came out with a Rescriptum — a great defeat. Francis doesn’t want to mess with the Traditional Mass anymore.”

    02/23/2023 7:53:40 AM PST · by ebb tide · 3 replies
    Rorate Caeli ^ | February 21, 2023 | Caminante Wanderer
    [Catholic Caucus] “Mediocre Roche came in for an Apostolic Constitution, and came out with a Rescriptum — a great defeat. Francis doesn’t want to mess with the Traditional Mass anymore.”Caminante WandererArgentina, Feb. 21, 2023Today a brief rescriptum ex audiencia Sanctissimi became known. This type of document is a decision of the Roman Pontiff communicated orally to some ecclesiastic of the Roman Curia received in audience, who then leaves a written record of that oral resolution (the so-called oraculum vivae vocis), so that it is considered valid for evidentiary purposes and is also effective before third parties. In short, it is...
  • [Catholic Caucus] “I Must Disobey”: A Priest’s Letter to His Bishop

    02/22/2023 9:52:31 AM PST · by ebb tide · 3 replies
    The Remnant Newspaper ^ | February 21, 2023 | Michael J. Matt
    [Catholic Caucus] “I Must Disobey”: A Priest’s Letter to His BishopEditor’s Note: What follows could double as a form letter for those priests who will be forced to disobey an unjust order in the very near future. They will be ordered to stop offering the Traditional Latin Mass, and many of them will disobey. But this need not be an act of defiance against their bishops. The villain here is Pope Francis. He is the one who has issued orders that put the bishops in a difficult spot. And neither should this disobedience be seen as permanent. The situation under...