I have tried to stop reading those ultra-right wing heterodox Catholic blogs and news sites. They are unhinged and fomenting schism or at least leading Catholics away from the living successor of St. Peter.
These sites also present Cardinals Muller and Burke as well as Bishop Schneider as contradicting the pope as though they are to be followed rather than the legitimate visible head of the Church, the Supreme Pontiff.
And Bishop Schneider seems particularly unhinged and more than likely should not have been chosen to be the Celebrant of the TLM that was planned for St. Peter’s Basilica. I have wondered if that Mass was moved to St. Mary Major because of that. If they had chosen Cardinal Zuppi to be the celebrant, I wonder if it would have remained at St. Peter’s?
I don’t think that this trio of spokesmen for common sense in Catholicism, sound orthodoxy are doing anyone any favors if in fact they are in opposition to the Vicar of Christ, the Supreme Pontiff. Maybe the right wing heterodox is simply portraying them as such against reality?
I am old enough to remember the pre-Vatican II Church and the respect the laity had for the clergy and the pope and bishops in union with him. And I grew up as a part of a small minority religion in the Bible Belt of the South where there was prior to Vatican II palpable anti-Catholic sentiments and actions from Protestants, especially from the more fundamentalistic variety.
Catholics were united around their priests, bishop and pope. There was never any public criticism of them.
Maybe that was immature and led to accepting abuse of a variety of kinds. But there is something to said about not airing one’s dirty laundry publicly or am I wrong?
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Father, with respect I think you are pushing the rails on this one.Cardinal Burke-for example- has been extremely cautious in what he says.As an expert in Canon Law he knows the limits ,and what he can/should say.We have so many badly formed Clergy now,it is rare to find someone who speaks in tune with perennial teaching.
Father McDonald, I will take your position more i seriously if you put Cupich and his fellow travelers in the unhinged camp. They are unhinged from authentic Catholicism and are actively harming the Faith in the dioceses under their control. They are doing far more harm than a few cranks who deny the validity of Vatican II.
Now here is a serious article about the impoverishment, liturgically, of the Mass and the other sacraments. This gent is not unhinged:
https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/10/review-of-abbe-claude-barthe-seven.html
In regard to Cardinal Burke's nonsense as follows:
Mike Lewis (of the outstanding Where Peter Is blog) had/has written about that. In particular, Mister Lewis had denounced Cardinal Burke's war against Pope Francis/Pope Francis' Magisterium.
I had an exchange with Mr. Lewis during which I thought that he had been to rough verbally in regard to the above. I realize today that Mr. Lewis had made several solid points in regard to Cardinal Burke's nonsense in question.
If anything, Cardinal Burke's verbal war against Amoris Laetitia has proved absurd. Pope Leo's XIV's powerful promotion of Amoris Laetitia has shattered Cardinal Burke's war against said document.
Pope Leo XIV's staunch promotion of Pope Francis' liturgical vision has also destroyed Cardinal Burke's war, for example, against Traditionis Custodes.
Pope Francis' haters, here and elsewhere, had predicted that Pope Francis would throw the book at Cardinal Burke. However, Pope Francis tolerated Cardinal Burke's nonsense in question. Pope Leo XIV has also practiced public restraint in regard to Cardinal Burke's nonsense.
Cardinal Burke is in good standing with Rome.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
Bishop Schneider has, in various ways, long flown off the rails repeatedly.
Nevertheless, Rome has refrained publicly from having taken action Bishop Schneider.
Therefore, despite his many preposterous claims, I accept that he is in full communion with Rome.
Pax.
is every reason to believe Bishop Sch, 's numerous unhinged moments is his claim that had Among his most disgraceful
The following registers on Pope Leo XIV's radar:
-- Pope Francis' liturgical vision.
-- Traditionis Custodes.
-- The path which Pope Francis had, in line with Vatican II, had constructed for the Church.
Pope Leo XIV;
"Pope Francis masterfully and concretely set it forth in the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, from which I would like to highlight several fundamental points:
"the return to the primacy of Christ in proclamation; the missionary conversion of the entire Christian community; growth in collegiality and synodality;
"attention to the sensus fidei, especially in its most authentic and inclusive forms, such as popular piety;
"loving care for the least and the rejected; courageous and trusting dialogue with the contemporary world in its various components and realities."
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The following does not register on Pope Leo XIV's radar:
-- Summorum Pontificum.
-- The claim that the Holy Mass of Pope Saint Paul XVI is not in line with Sacrosanctum Concilium.
-- Nonsense espoused by Cardinals Burke, as well as Müller.
-- Nonsense espoused by Bishop Schneider.
-- Nonsense espoused by the SSPX.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
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