CHISELED AWAY CHUNKS, CHISELED AWAY CHUNKS BY CHUNKS—TRADITIONIS CUSTODIS—ARE WE WITNESSING A CHISELING AWAY???

Both Cardinals Angelo Bagnasco and Robert Sarah are beloved and respected Cardinals of the Catholic Church and I am sure Pope Leo XIV is very interested in what these two say about the Ancient Form of the Liturgies of the Church, so grievously taken away from the Faithful by Traditionis Custodis after it was so graciously given to the Faithful by Summorum Pontificum. 

Pope Leo has already listened to Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke and has given him personal permission to celebrate the TLM at St. Peter’s Basilica in October as a part of the Summorum Pontificum Jubilee Pilgrimage. 

So beginning with one cardinal in recent months, promoting the TLM, we now have two additional Cardinals doing the same! Three little Indians, I mean, Cardinals chiseling away chunks of Traditionis Custodis, chunk by chunk!

The other day, the esteemed Archbishop Emeritus of Milan said:

In new interview, Italian Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco says regarding the TLM: “I have never seen, and still do not see, how the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite … could cause problems. There are no risks or dangers if everything is approached calmly & with goodwill by all.”

Cardinal Sarah has spoken about restrictions on the Latin Mass in a new interview published this week:

“All baptized persons have citizenship in the Church, sharing its Creed and its resulting morality. Over the centuries, the diversity of rites celebrating the one Eucharistic sacrifice has never created problems for authorities, because the unity of faith was clear. Indeed, I believe the variety of rites in the Catholic world is a great wealth. 

A rite, moreover, is not composed at a desk, but is the fruit of theological and cultic stratification and sedimentation. 

I wonder if it is possible to "ban" a rite that is over a thousand years old. 

Finally, if the liturgy is also a source for theology, how can we deny access to "ancient sources"? It would be like prohibiting the study of St. Augustine to anyone who wishes to reflect correctly on grace or the Trinity”