The same malice has produced both the ambiguous texts of Vatican II and the ambiguous New Rite, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò told ResNovae.fr (June 15).
Their authors knew that the "conservative" bishops would interpret both in a Catholic way, while the real intention and outcome was everything but that. Viganò asks the revealing question,
"Have you ever seen a priest who celebrates the Novus Ordo with the altar facing God, entirely in Latin, wearing the fiddleback (Roman) chasuble and distributing Communion at the Communion rail, without this arousing the ire of his bishop and confreres, even though, strictly speaking, this way of celebrating would be perfectly legitimate?"
Some priests have indeed tried to do this but have been treated "worse than those who habitually celebrate the Tridentine Mass,” Viganò stresses.
He disagrees with Ratzinger, Sarah and others who advocated for a gradual “liturgical revival” of the New Mass. For Viganò such attempts use window-dressing to make the …More