Hope and joy marked the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI. Reform in continuity and the common sense approach to what was sacred in the past is sacred today, touched hearts longing for faith, hope and love but within the context of historical Catholicism and its clarity which the Council of Trent brought to the Church and served her so well.
Today, the successor to Pope Benedict XVI has brought us back to the confusion, discord, polarization and despair of the 1970’s. Will his successor do to Pope Francis what Pope Francis did to Pope Benedict XVI and his forward thinking? Time will tell:
Meanwhile the NCR on the 16th anniversary of Summorum Pontificum tells us:
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I confess that I am bereft at the state of our church today. Yes, I know enough history to know that things have been much worse BUT the global reach today of the church and the implications of this failed Pontificate, as well as Francis' "stacking the deck" makes me very worried about the future. Am I destined for the SSPX? Probably not but the FSSP is a strong 'maybe'. I'm not a huge fan of the TLM but in terms of fidelity you can't beat it. Francis is a train wreck and the fear and confusion he has wrought is destructive.
Maybe we can get them to stay in Germany?
It is a veritable Clown Car
Looking forward to when all get this synod out of their respective systems. Hoping, unlike the promises of Christ, that the promises of the Synod are as empty as most of the ideology on that side of the fence.
Summorum Pontificum was destined to collapse, according to Peter Kwasniewski, as well as Father Davide Pagliarani, Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X.
Peter Kwasniewski:
"Summorum Pontificum is destined to be one of the great papal interventions in all of history, but it is no more than damage control; it is not a pillar, much less a foundation, of a permanent structure."
"And those who lean on it too much will find themselves crushed by its incoherences."
"In fact, it would not be too much to say that there are fictions, even lies, in the document."
"This, then, is the fundamental problem with Summorum Pontificum: it is internally incoherent, founded on a monumental contradiction caused by the worst abuse of papal power in the history of the Church."
"After its Prologue and Article 1, the remainder of Summorum Pontificum subtly holds the traditional liturgy hostage, or gives it, as it were, second-class citizenship."
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Father Davide Pagliarani, Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X:
"With Summorum Pontificum, the Tridentine Mass was then granted a much wider right. This allowed a certain number of priests to discover it; and by celebrating it – it must be acknowledged – many priests began to question their priesthood, and to question the Council and the New Mass."
"However, the perspective of this motu proprio, which remained flawed, was based on an error: two forms of the same rite of Mass, and above all, I would like to add, the illusion of improving something in the current crisis without discussing the causes of the crisis."
"This was the error of Pope Benedict XVI and the limitations of this motu proprio: it just could not work."
"It could work for a while, but sooner or later it would lead to what has happened."
Pax.
Mark Thomas
MT, both authors would have liked Pope Benedict to deny Vatican II and suppress the modern Mass; that’s why they wrote what they did. But Pope Benedict was more Vatican II than any pope after Vatican II to include Pope Francis. He knew that reform had to be in continuity and I suspect he would have preferred the word renewal to reform. Pope Francis with the synodal. Way seems to have open the door to the destruction of most of Vatican II’s documents including Lumen Gentium and Verbum Dei. Pope Benedict would be turning in his tomb.
Why did Summorum Pontificum fail?
1. The bishops.
There was widespread outrage among bishops in regard to Summorum Pontificum's issuance. In turn, only a relative few bishops had embraced Summorum Pontificum to the hilt. The majority of bishops were, at best, lukewarm in regard to Summorum Pontificum.
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2. The widespread rejection among traditionalist Catholics of Summorum Pontificum/Pope Benedict XVI's related teachings.
-- "Nobody" has accepted the teaching that the TLM, and Holy Mass of Pope Saint Paul VI, are two forms of the one Roman Rite.
-- "Nobody" has accepted Pope Benedict XVI's teaching that the two Missals are in harmony with each other.
-- "Nobody" has accepted the following teaching of Pope Benedict XVI:
"Needless to say, in order to experience full communion, the priests of the communities adhering to the former usage cannot, as a matter of principle, exclude celebrating according to the new books.
"The total exclusion of the new rite would not in fact be consistent with the recognition of its value and holiness."
The trashing of the Holy Mass of Pope Saint Paul VI is a serious problem among traditionalist Catholics.
That is on display via certain commenters to Father McDonald's blog. Said folks are liturgical warmongers who have rejected Pope Benedict XVI's liturgical peace plan.
That is, the peaceful coexistence of the TLM, as well as Holy Mass of Pope Saint Paul VI.
As Father Davide Pagliarani, Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X, has made clear: In light of all of the above, the issuance of Traditonis Custodes was inevitable.
For eight years, Pope Francis had maintained Summorum Pontificum. But it had become impossible to ignore the reality that Summorum Pontificum had failed in dramatic fashion.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
Father McDonald said..."MT, both authors would have liked Pope Benedict to deny Vatican II and suppress the modern Mass; that’s why they wrote what they did."
Father McDonald, I appreciate your reply.
I agree that Father Davide Pagliarani, as well as Peter Kwasniewski, desire the suppression of Vatican II, as well as the Holy Mass of Pope Saint Paul VI. But I believe that the men in question have offered their honest opinions of Summorum Pontificum. They view the document as flawed and incoherent.
Even Father John Zuhlsdorf, a tremendous supporter of Pope Benedict XVI, has insisted that Pope Benedict XVI concocted "fictions" to try to make Summorum Pontificum work.
There are teachings from Pope Benedict XVI's liturgical peace plan that Father John Zuhlsdorf has rejected:
https://catholicinbrooklyn.blogspot.com/2015/05/father-john-zuholsdorf-bans-me-from-his.html?m=0
https://catholicinbrooklyn.blogspot.com/2015/04/father-z-spittle-flecked-nutty-against.html
Peter Kwasniewski, as well as Father Davide Pagliarani, are far from alone in having insisted that Summorum Pontificum is/was a muddled, unsustainable document that was destined to collapse.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
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