VICAR OF CHRIST, PUT A STOP TO THIS OUTRAGE
This whole miserable charade is a blot upon the Church and, with all the respect due to your sacred office, it is a blot upon Yourself. Unless all written reports on this case are totally false, which would be difficult to believe, then what has been done to this Order is an act of rank injustice which must be corrected by Your Holiness, and without delay. We here join our voice with many others in calling for the immediate dismissal of Father Volpi who has acted in a way that does no credit to him either as a man or indeed even as a priest of God. The dismissal of this man would be only a first step in bringing some charity back into this whole sad episode.
What the world sees, Your Holiness, is simply this: that a religious order which as availed itself of the use of the exquisitely beautiful ancient rite of Holy Mass is being dragooned into abandoning their rights as Catholics to this Mass, as guaranteed by your predecessor, and being forced to conform exclusively to the banalities inherent in the misbegotten Novus Ordo Missae, and furthermore that it is actually being punished severely for its attachment to the Usus Antiquior. That is what the world sees, Your Holiness, and that is a terrible thing for Catholics and those sympathetic to the Church to have to see.
The One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church is a Monarchy. When a gross injustice has been committed in the Kingdom, the Monarch must act. When a scandal rears its ugly head in the Church that scandal must be ended promptly.______________________________________________________________________________ We as Catholics do have some rights, too, that need to be respected. In the case of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate we have two rights that need to be addressed: first, we have a perfect right to the Traditional Mass, and have always had that right; second, we have the right to know the facts of this case. If there has been some real wrongdoing by this Order we need to know what that is______________________________________________________________________________________. And following upon this, whatever fault they may or may not have committed, Catholics want to know why their punishment consists of refusing them their God-given rights to Holy Mass in the Ancient Rite of the Church and in purging the Order of anyone associated with its founder, Father Manelli._______________________________________________________________
This chicanery vis-a-vis the traditional Mass has to cease now. The Church has suffered forty uninspiring years of the new Mass. It has been a spectacular failure. Let those who wish to cling to this failure continue to do so. But the persecution of those who do not want to cling to it needs to come to its ignoble end.
The Vicar of Christ can put a stop to this outrage. The Catholic world awaits the justice that must be done.
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