This Saturday, the very high and flexible prelate, Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke will celebrate the Solemn Sung High Pontifical Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica, Altar of the Chair. It is surely to be glorious!
Another high and flexible prelate-Cardinal, not known for being rigid in any way, progressive or conservative, Matteo Cardinal Zuppi will celebrate the pre-Vatican II version of Pontifical Vespers at the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Rome.
The following I copy and paste from Edward Pentin’s article in the National Catholic Register:
One of the Assistant Papal Master of Ceremonies described the most flexible Pope Leo XIV in this way:
The decision to allow the Mass to go ahead appears to have come from the top. “Clearly, [it was] because the Pope said: ‘Let them do it,’” Msgr. Marco Agostini, a papal master of ceremonies and a leading advocate of the traditional Mass in Rome, told The Washington Post Oct. 19.
At noon on Nov. 1, the Solemnity of All Saints, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone will celebrate a solemn pontifical Mass — the most complete and elaborate form of the traditional Mass — at Star of the Sea Parish in San Francisco.
The following day, at 5 p.m. on the feast of All Souls, the prefect emeritus of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, will celebrate a pontifical Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes parish church in Philadelphia.
Lastly, on Nov. 21, the prefect emeritus of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Cardinal Robert Sarah, will celebrate pontifical vespers at the Cathedral-Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia.
Time of Tensions
The pontifical liturgies come at a time when Pope Leo XIV must decide whether to continue restricting some liturgies in the traditional Roman Rite in accordance with Traditionis Custodes or allow the freedom to celebrate them more in accordance with Pope Benedict XVI’s apostolic letter Summorum Pontificum.
The credibility of Traditionis Custodes was severely undermined over the summer when it emerged that the original justification for implementing its restrictions had been based on misrepresented data about bishops’ opinions.
How the Pope might decide on the issue remains unclear, although curial figures such as Cardinal Kurt Koch of Switzerland, the president of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, said in August it would “certainly be desirable to open the now-closed door more again.”
Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, a former president of the Italian bishops’ conference, also indicated that he favored a relaxation of the restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass, saying he saw “neither risks nor dangers if things are done peacefully and with everyone’s goodwill.”
Currently, national bishops’ conferences and local ordinaries remain the decisive authorities, and some continue to execute new restrictions, especially in the United States. “This seems to be something unique to America,” Shaw toldRaymond Arroyo on EWTN’s The World Over program Oct. 16. “I haven’t heard about this coming from Italy; France; or England, where I am. In fact, the bishops in England seem more relaxed than they were six months ago about the traditional Mass, so this is a real puzzle.”
In recent months, (the super rigid and cruel prelates of) the dioceses of Charlotte, North Carolina; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Detroit have suppressed the traditional liturgy, resulting in considerable backlash from the faithful.
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Try this out for flexibility among our bishops (in French but worth the effort): https://renaissancecatholique.fr/blog/abbaye-de-pontigny-leveque-prefere-un-hotel-de-luxe-a-un-seminaire-tradi
It is an act of pure evil to suppress the TLM and a bishop who does so is unfit for their office and should be sent packing
Bishops doing so aren’t evil, they are implementing TC.
Diocese of Cleveland just got another TC extension. This is not the first insult extension or other TLM permission granted in this Leonine papacy. I'm rather suspicious maybe, just maybe, the bishops who've recently suppressed their diocese's TLMs are lying through their teeth when they say the DDW forced their hand.
Nick
big benny, TC is evil and ultra vires.
Not ultrea vires. A pope and council have every right to reform the liturgy and calendar.
As supreme pontiff, the pope gets to judge what is ultrea vires and what is not!
Last week on Father's blog we read Dennis Knapp's article/response to Mike Lewis' lengthy list of serious issues that plague the TLM Movement. Mister Knapp acknowledged the following:
"The movement has failed to police its extremes. Its most visible voices often promote views incompatible with full communion.
"Until traditionalists answer the question “Do you accept the authority of Vatican II and the post-conciliar Magisterium?” with an unambiguous “yes”, not through clever equivocation but through genuine religious submission, the hierarchy’s concerns remain justified."
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In light of the above, it is mind-boggling that TLM Movement leaders daily give
said movement a black eye. The movement hopes that Pope Leo XIV will view "traditionalists" favorably.
Nevertheless, the TLM Movement's most prominent folks wage war daily against Holy Mother Church.
Example: Michael Matt yesterday defamed the True Church's Canonization process. What on earth do "traditionalists" hope to gain in regard to their war against Holy Mother Church?
Michael J. Matt
@Michael_J_Matt
https://x.com/Michael_J_Matt/status/1980257918680244352
"Is the Vatican firing up the Canonization Drive-thru again? What's with the spate of Halo Awards being handed out lately? This 20-year-old Remnant Cartoon seems to apply again:"
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The cartoon in question mocks Holy Mother Church.
In regard to the TLM Movement: Thanks to such TLM Movement leaders as Michael Matt (The Remnant), Dennis Knapp called it when he declared that "the hierarchy’s concerns remain justified."
Pax.
Mark Thomas
My guess (and that is all it is) Pope Leo will not do anything dramatic. He will simply direct that all requests for the TLM will be approved. He will not abrogate TC but let it wither and die.
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