We know that Pope Leo is consulting about the Traditional Latin Mass and the horrible way TLM communities are being treated by the Dicastery for Divine Worship and local bishops as they implement Traditionis Custodis.
Many uncaring progressives in the Church, enjoy the punishment traditional Catholics are receiving as they think they deserve it for their negativity to Pope Francis and anything post-Vatican II. They are really sadistic and are as lacking in charity as they accuse others of lacking in charity.
Yet, the Traditional Catholics in the USA have not acted like the disobedient Catholics of the Syro-Malabar Eastern Rite who have resorted to violence and vandalism of a Cathedral all over the request of Pope Francis that they face the liturgical East as a unified and common posture for the Liturgy of the Eucharist.
Pope Leo seems to have made a compromise that allows both directions for their Divine Liturgy. That is what I suggested to Pope Francis. Why polarize people further. Make it both/and not either/or!!!!
Pope Leo is praising Pope Francis, all the while, undoing some of the more Machiavellian aspects of his papacy, especially his more autocratic approach to everything bypassing Canon Law in the governance of the Church and his humble rejection of papal traditions and proper governance.
And certainly Pope Leo has restored so much of what Pope Francis ditched. Papal Pageantry is an important sign of this and may bode well for the more liberal allowance of the TLM and ancillary liturgies.
I think what Cardinal Sarah recently said in an interview is hopeful. But Pope Leo moves methodically and with common sense but also observing Canon Law.
May I, in my most humble way, suggest to the Holy Father that as he praises Pope Francis, that he begin to praise Pope Benedict and restore the liturgical genius of this great predecessor so that each pope respects previous papal magisteriums all the while refining what needs refining.
We know that Pope Benedict, who lived through most of Pope Francis’ papacy, suffered great internal pain to see so much of the good His Holiness promoted as pope, undone by his successor. But Pope Benedict bore that insult with humble dignity like the insults our Lord endured in His public ministry and during the Way of the Cross!
Cardinal Sarah: I still believe that we all need to reflect within the Church. When Jesus instituted the sacrament of the Eucharist, he prayed for our unity. That all may be one.
Oh, we have turned the Mass into a battlefield between traditionalists and progressives, this and that, and we are profaning the Eucharist, whereas Jesus died to reunite God's children scattered throughout the world in unity through the sacrament of the Eucharist, through the sacrament of the liturgy. Why have we turned the liturgy into a battlefield?
I think we need to reflect on this. It is the only time when man is in face-to-face relationship with God. It is the only time when man is in direct contact with God, when God listens to him, when he speaks to God. Why do we have to fight? Why forbid this? Why forbid that? Who gives us this right? Who gives us this power? Someone who has a personal relationship with God? We've never seen this in the history of the Church.
So I think that if the Pope tries to see that it's not easy because the question is a matter of faith. How we believe is how we pray. If we don't have faith, we can't take action. If people don't believe, nothing will change. We continue to fight over the liturgy, we continue to bully certain people. Whereas in fact, when we really look at the Christians who practice today, they are the ones who go to traditional Mass. So why forbid them? On the contrary, we should encourage them.
I don't know what the Pope will do, but he is aware of this battle. He is aware of this difficulty.
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