Axed Motu Proprio: Fears and Hopes
Rorate-caeli.blogspot.com has a risk assessment on the impending withdrawal of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum with which Benedict XVI liberated the Roman Rite in 2007. The essential point: priests belonging to Roman Rite communities and diocesan priests who already celebrate the Roman Rite may continue to do so. Other diocesan priests may only begin with the celebration after having been granted a special permission of their bishop. Roman Rite communities are no longer under the jurisdiction of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, but of the Congregation for the Liturgy which is staffed with hardened enemies of the Roman Rite: Prefect Roche, Secretary Viola and Undersecretary García Macías.
Implementing the Ghetto Proposal of an Agitator
Rorate-Caeli knows that axing Summorum Pontificum has been discussed for some time with a certain number of bishops, especially the Italian Bishops Conference. In Francis' Curia, resentment against …More
The French bishops were strongly against Summorum Pontificum. Their excuse was that the French clerics and laity who prefer the TLM are monarchists.
So what? They are fine with government advocating abortion but not with monarchy.
After the election of BXVI he visited Germany. The German bishops'reaction made the French look weak. They did not want the Roman Rite liberated, nor did they want the SSPX regularized.
Beam me, up, Scotty. There's no intelligent life down here.