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Belgian Bishop Praises Summorum Pontificum

Benedict XVI wanted to support new communities and believed in creative minorities, Liège Bishop Jean-Pierre Delville, 71, Belgium, said during a January 4 Requiem for Benedict XVI.

Delville explained that Benedict also favoured Roman Rite communities "because they form centres of faith that radiate outwards, enhancing the spiritual, musical and cultural heritage of the liturgy.”

For Delville, this was the purpose of Summorum Pontificum, since Benedict wanted an alternative to "banality" [= Novus Ordo]. The "courage of truth" was Benedict's strength, Delville believes, "For him, it can happen that the Church is modern by being anti-modern, that is to say, positioned against the drifts of modernity.”

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Lisi Sterndorfer
Surprising how little Summorum Pontificum was mentioned in the numerous articles on Benedict XVI, reflecting on his life and his Pontificate, on the Vatican News website. Nothing in English, Italian, French, or German. Almost as if it didn’t happen.
Kenjiro M. Yoshimori
This is wonderful news, from a sitting Belgian Bishop (not a retired one). It is also a serious slap/condemnation of "Pope" Francis and his policies and agenda. Contrary to some people, who say that now Benedict is dead, Francis and his homo trolls will crush resistance, I think the resistance will only grow, and like a tsunami flood the Francis Vatican with rebellion and protests to that he can't …More
This is wonderful news, from a sitting Belgian Bishop (not a retired one). It is also a serious slap/condemnation of "Pope" Francis and his policies and agenda. Contrary to some people, who say that now Benedict is dead, Francis and his homo trolls will crush resistance, I think the resistance will only grow, and like a tsunami flood the Francis Vatican with rebellion and protests to that he can't do anything. The people love tradition, the Roman Rite, and Benedict XVI. And, especially after that disrespectful and contemptuous display by Francis towards Benedict XVI yesterday at his funeral, Catholics in general, and especially in Rome, hate Francis, his agenda, and his homo appointees all the more.