THIS COMMENTARY ON THE DUPLICITY OF PROCLAIMING SUBSIDIARITY AND SYNODALITY ALL THE WHILE MICROMANAGING BISHOPS AS THOUGH THEY ARE BRANCH MANAGERS IS OUT IN THE OPEN FOR ALL TO SEE, NOT JUST THE ORTHODOX BUT ALSO THE HETERODOX WHO HATE ULTRMONTANISM

George Wiegel is no traditionalist, but he is a thoroughly orthodox post-Vatican II Catholic in the best sense of what Vatican II actually hoped for the Church, or at least, the fathers of Vatican II. 

Thus this sad commentary on the hypocrisy of the Vatican, and quite sadly, Pope Francis, who is responsible for it, must be told. 

What Pope Francis has done in this regard, has nothing to do with Vatican II, it is the ultramontanism of Vatican I:

 Press title:

The New Ultramontanism and the Dissing of Vatican II

I am a Novus Ordo man, but I reject, indeed I deplore, the blunderbuss anti-Vatican II polemic of a marginal minority of liturgical traditionalists, who foolishly point a loaded gun to their Roman enemies.