Kurt Cardinal Koch presented his own thoughts and hopes for the future of the traditional Mass under the new Pope. His Eminence suggested Pope Benedict XVI was right to preserve the Latin Mass, calling for a more liberal approach to the traditional liturgy under Pope Leo.
Personally, I would appreciate it if we could find a good way forward here. Pope Benedict XVI has shown a helpful way by believing that something that has been practiced for centuries cannot simply be banned. That convinced me.
Pope Francis has chosen a very restrictive path in this regard. It would certainly be desirable to open the now closed door more again.
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"Cardinal Koch is pushing a Satanic ideology in direct opposition to the (previous) pope, and he needs to be decreed (by me) a dissenter and reprobate heretic." -Mike Lewis, probably
Nick
"Granting that the forms [of worship] are not immediately from God, still long use has made them divine to us; for the spirit of religion has so penetrated and quickened them, that to destroy them is, in respect to the multitude of men, to unsettle and dislodge the religious principle itself. In most minds usage has so identified them with the notion of religion, that the one [the rites] cannot be extirpated without the other [the religion]." -Soon to be Doctor of the Church, St. Henry Cardinal Newman.
He was right.
Nick
Nick,
Excellent! Francis would likely have bounced Newman out!
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