This interview is brilliant, fair and balanced and I hope Pope Leo reads it!
From Rorate Caeli:
Abbot of Fontgombault on the Liturgy: "Unity does not mean Uniformity. Actually, Imposing Uniformity is Detrimental to Unity." "We need to get away from the traditionalist-progressive dispute, which is exhausting for everyone, and bring peace back to the altar!"
Interview granted by the Father Abbot of the most influential Traditional abbey in the world, Our Lady of Fontgombault (France), to French Catholic periodical La Nef -- Lothar Rillinger (for Kath.net) and Christophe Geffroy (for La Nef, for complementary questions) are the interviewers.
La Nef
June 2025
Dom Jean Pateau: “Unity is not uniformity”
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I also Pope Leo reads about the vibrant, TLM Community at Versailles.
https://www.liturgicalartsjournal.com/2024/03/fssp-versailles-chapelle-de-limmaculee.html
I am amazed that New Catholic (Rorate Caeli) permitted the following positive assessment of Pope Francis (requiescat in pace) to have appeared on Rorate Caeli blog:
Dom Jean Pateau, OSB, Abbot of Our Lady of Fontgombault:
"Pope Francis was a gift from God to the Church of our time, just as Pope Leo is today.
"From Pope Francis, I treasure his motto Miserando atque eligendo - By showing mercy and choosing.
"Having experienced God's mercy when he felt chosen by the Lord to become a priest, he never ceased to make people aware of God's gaze upon them, and to invite everyone to see their neighbor in the same light.
"Every human being is the object of God's mercy and is chosen by Him, even the most wretched. From God, he has received a right to exist, a right to be the object of true love, a love of choice.
"To receive and put into practice this motto is demanding, especially when our neighbor is a burden to us. Yet the Pope called us to nothing less than the imitation of Christ giving his life for his friends."
"We have a young pope (Leo XIV) endowed by the Lord with many gifts. It seems to me that we can expect a pontificate that will reap the fruits of the three great popes who preceded him, John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis: John Paul II's call to mission, Pope Benedict's spirituality and teaching, and Francis' welcoming of all people."
Pax.
Mark Thomas
Father McDonald, I think you will find this article interesting. If these stats are accurate - bishops should start paying attention:
https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2025/06/13-of-all-us-catholics-attended.html?m=1#more
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