COMMON SENSE LITURGICAL PLURALITY AND LIBERALITY ALWAYS COMES FROM THE ORTHODOX IN THE CHURCH, NOT THE HETERODOX, BE THEY TRADITIONAL OR OPPOSED TO TRADITION

Pope Leo’s expressed desire is that the Church be unified in faith, hope and love and carrying out the Corporal Works of Mercy, as well as, the Spiritual Works of Mercy. This unity is to be found in a variety of liturgical diversities or plurality, yet all the liturgical rites of the east and west are in full communion with the Successor of Saint Peter, the pope:

Those of us who are liberal, know that the Catholic Church is quite liberal when it comes to the various liturgical rites of the Church both in the west and the east. 

An example of the coherence of this kind of liberality, which your most humble blogger embraces too, is Cardinal Pizzaballa, the Patriarch of Jerusalem. This is what he says about the TLM and his most liberal approach to it:

Cardinal Pizzaballa told The Catholic Herald: “These are typical problems of Western countries. We in general [the Church in the East] are so used to different rites that we don’t see any problem [with the TLM].” 

Those who rigidly oppose the TLM as well as rigidly opposing our Latin Rite’s own tradition of ad orientem and kneeling for Holy Communion even in the Mass of Bugnini and Paul VI, often betray their own rigidity and incoherence by doing so. 

For example, the Ordinariate’s “Divine Worship, The Missal” which is another expression of the one Roman Rite, that also has other expressions other than the TLM and the Bugnini Mass, sees as a norm in their own General Instructions that communicants will kneel for Holy Communion either at an altar railing or kneeler. That is their norm, as well as, while kneeling for Holy Communion receiving on the tongue or the hand. 

And keep in mind that it was Pope Francis, of all popes, who promulgated the Ordinariate’s Divine Worship, the Missal and His Holiness, the late pope, has his name in that missal as promulgating it. 

And then on top of that, Pope Benedict XVI made explicit that in the Bugnini Mass, kneeling for Holy Communion is allowed and he modeled it at every papal Mass he celebrated and a kneeler was provided for communicants to kneel as Pope Benedict offered them Holy Communion.

And Pope Benedict often modeled ad orientem Bugnini Masses showing that it is perfectly acceptable as is the Bugnini Masses facing the nave. 

Pope Benedict XVI was truly a flexible, liberal pope on so many levels and such a role model for those who rigidly oppose tradition, be it the TLM, kneeling for Holy Communion and ad orientem!

For bishops or even the pope to make it difficult for communicants who want to kneel, to kneel, is just plain Orwellian, as Pope Leo would describe such nonsense.