Francis' Motu Proprio contradicts the Second Vatican Council
Francis' Motu Proprio Traditiones Custodes is "not a good example of the synodality that is so often spoken of" - Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller told EWTN last week. He said the Old Mass was not just about discipline, but about "the apostolic tradition" and the revealed faith. Müller cites the Second Vatican Council, which expressly did not want a rigid uniformity of liturgical rites. Several times Müller opposes Francis' plan to create a uniformed, "rigid" liturgy. By contrast, Müller declares, "We have different rites and a different history of rites in the one Church."
Novus Ordo Was Unprecedented Curtailment of the Rite
Cardinal Raymond Burke said in the same broadcast that the implementation of the liturgical document Sacrosanctum concilium of the Second Vatican Council was "extremely problematic". Personally, he still experienced the full beauty of the Roman Mass when he was in the minor seminary. This beauty was then …More