WHAT’S UP WITH THIS? ISN’T THE COPTIC POPE EVEN MORE BACKWARDS AND RESTORATIONIST THAN POOR CATHOLICS IN FULL UNION WITH THE POPE OF ROME ALTHOUGH THEY PREFER A “BACKWARDS” LITURGY LIKE THE COPTIC POPE?

The Coptic Pope, who is in schism with the Pope of Rome, was allowed to celebrate a very valid Divine Liturgy at the Pope’s Cathedral and upon the main altar of Saint John Lateran. 

Oddly, enough, the schismatic Coptic Pope celebrated the Coptic Orthodox Divine Liturgy with his back to the nave of the Basilica , which means he actually faced west. Odd!

That must have driven the pope of Rome’s liturgist wild to see that kind of backwardness. 

By the way, Bishop Strickland corrected himself and has stated that the SSPX, unlike the Orthodox Coptics, are not in schism. I suspect Bishop Fellay will be invited to celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass of the Latin Rite at the Lateran Basilica shortly, since he, unlike the pope of the Coptics, isn’t in schism. 

This is a commentary by someone else on the Coptic Liturgy as the Lateran:

Coptic Pope celebrates divine liturgy in Saint John Lateran. Unlike the anglican "mass" celebrated there , I have no complaints against this one. Unlike the anglican "bishop" Pope Tawadros is a real priest and a real bishop and the Coptic Orthodox Church is a real apostolic church as opposed to the anglicans who are considered to be just an ecclessial community. Transubstantiation occurred and Our Lord was made present during that divine liturgy and the sacrifice has been consummated.