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Friday, November 26, 2021

THE ABSURDITIES OF THE LITURGICAL LEFT AND THE PROGRESSIVE AGENDA


Praytell is often a paradise of absurdities in logic and anti-intellectuallism cloaked in academia. It also worships the false gods of an ecumenical council, ecclesiology and reform as though these are gods.

The article linked below is a case in point. Fr. Anthony Ruff’s diagnosis of the multitude of “heterodox” Catholics who reject a pastoral council whose non-infallible reiterations are simply that, pastoral, and many of them time-constrained by the late 50’s/60’s mentality. 

A Catholic is bound to dogmatic teachings but not pastoral intuitions. 

I know Catholics in my parish and in our diocese who would be more than happy to see the 1970 Roman Missal abrogated. Could another pope do that? YES HIS HOLINESS CAN AND MIGHT VERY WELL DO. His Holiness might read Sacrosanctum Concilium through the actual eyes of the Church Fathers, not those who interpreted the Council Fathers for Pope Paul VI. He might return us to the older Missal with the minor adjustments the Council indicated. I’d be pleased with the rubrics in the the vernacular, the changing parts in the vernacular and the parts the people are expected or encouraged (not demanded) to chant to be chantable for them. But active participation through vocals is not a god and indicates nothing about a person’s inward disposition. Deaf mutes can be more faithful Catholics than those strapped with hearing and voices.

Fr. Anthony’s hysterical condensing towards Catholics who prefer the older books of the Catholic Church is pure nonsense. The Catholic Church is diverse liturgically in the East and West and even in the Latin Rite, prior to the Council, there were more pronounced differences in rites within the Latin Church that were all unified although some with some major differences.

My suggestion to the Holy Father is to do with traditional Roman Catholics what Pope Benedict did for former Anglicans. Give them an ORDINARIATE. The structure is already in place with the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP). Give them a bishop, like Bishop Lopes of the ORDINARIATE. 

This would in fact enable some SSPX to return to a more “regular” association with the See of Peter.

Ecumenism begins at home. When progressive Catholics are nicer to Anglicans and Lutherans and Presbyterians compared to their own brothers and sisters who prefer the older liturgy books, the hypocrisy is palpable. 

Here is Fr. Anthony’s article with a link to an article by Max Faggioli (Maximum Beans). The comments to the article, if not removed by the same Fr. A, are quite good and point out the hypocrisy:

Faggioli on U.S. Traditionalism: A Response

At Commonweal in “Traditionalism, American-Style. A new kind of opposition to Rome,” Massimo Faggioli notes that the reaction to Traditionis custodes in the U.S. has been

“hostile (from those already militantly opposed to the pope) or lukewarm (from most of the U.S. bishops).”

2 comments:

TJM said...

The comments were interesting. Paul Inwood's was laughable and I was pleased to see pushback on his post. Liturgical progressives really subscribe to the "my way or the highway theory" without acknowledging what an utter failure the OF has been. They would prefer empty churches rather than admitting, that maybe, just maybe, the OF is not doing the job of instilling belief in the Real Presence nor drawing people closer to the Mass. These alleged proponents of "diversity" and "inclusiveness" want diversity and inclusiveness so long as it does not include the EF.

TJM said...

Father McDonald,

Here is a link to a response to Father Ruff posted over at Rorate. I think you will find it very interesting:

https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2021/11/liturgical-polarisation-reply-fr-ruff.html#more