Pope Benedict XVI is famous for declaring correctly that the pre-Vatican II Liturgical Rites of the Church, to include the celebration of Mass, were never abrogated after Vatican II by Pope Paul VI.
Certainly, Pope Paul VI suppressed its celebration but never completely abrogated its celebration.
Special indults to celebrate the Tridentine Rites were given to elderly priests finding it difficult to transition to the new Mass. And England, famously, was allowed to celebrate the older rites under certain circumstances by Paul VI! So Pope Benedict was correct beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Pope John Paul II furthered indults for the Tridentine Mass and established Ecclesia Dei to oversee the celebration of the Tridentine Rites. He went further to establish the FSSP to win back priests and laity from the schismatic tending SSPX.
As one can see, with both Popes Paul VI and JPII, there was a theological development in the post-Vatican II Church to accommodate the older liturgies of the Church. There was organic growth.
Pope Benedict XVI continued that post Vatican II development with Summorum Pontificum which freed every priest in the Latin Rite who had a working knowledge of Latin to celebrate the Older form of the Mass. And in the most non-clericalism mentality ever shown by a pope, Pope Benedict said the laity, who desired it, should be given the older form of the Nuptial Liturgies as well as Funeral Rites.
But then Pope Francis, who despised the pre-Vatican II Church and the restoration of aspects of it by both Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, and in a complete breach with the organic development of the celebration of the older liturgies of the Church after Vatican II issued TC to cancel all that two previous popes had done to promote the older liturgies. He canceled parish celebrations of it, especially in cathedrals and forbade this form of the Mass in parochial parishes and even being advertised in bulletins.
How can Pope Leo rectify the damage that TC caused and is still causing even in my Province of Atlanta where the Charlotte bishop has created such division concerning the older rites of the Church by following in a rigid and cruel way TC?
TIME WILL TELL. I HOPE THERE IS A SUPPRESSION OF TC IN FAVOR OF SP AND THE ORGANIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE CELEBRATION OF THE TRIDENTINE RITES IN THE POST VATICAN II CHURCH. IT’S THE LIBERAL, PROGRESSIVE THING TO DO!
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Is the honeymoon over? PL appoints Paglia’s right hand man as head of the Pontifical Academy for Life. He’s all in on many anti-Catholic life issues. Wonderful.
Depends on who you read. The Pillars has a good commentary on him with good comments too.
Father McDonald said..."Depends on who you read."
Exactly!
For example:
One could read all day that Pope Francis was an horrific, evil, vile, God-hating, Church-hating, tyrant.
Conversely, one could read all day that Pope Francis, as Pope (Emeritus) Benedict XVI had insisted, was a holy, humble, first-class Pontiff...an outstanding pastor who had been blessed with first-rate theological expertise.
Person X portrays Pope Benedict XVI as a failed Vatican II, suit-and-tie wearing Vatican II modernist. Michael Matt, for example, reiterated the other day his long-standing claim that Pope Benedict XVI was a Vatican II "modernist...confused..."
Person Y says otherwise.
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Edward Pentin has portrayed Monsignor Renzo Pegoraro unfavorably. Others, beginning with Pope Leo XIV, look favorably upon Monsignor Renzo Pegoraro.
"Depends on who you read."
Exactly, Father.
Pax!
Mark Thomas
Where refinement is preferred, TC, particularly its motivations, might be beyond redemption.
The bishop of Charlotte might have raised this to a higher position on the docket with the "let them eat cake" mandate.
Wait till a child gets injured, or worse, journeying to the TLM's clandestine location. But make sure to stay off social media while taking this medicine.
MT Suit,
You realize Father McDonald has had plenty to say about the nastiness of "Pope Mercy"
Abrogation is the only functional correction.
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