POPE LEO APPOINTS A THEOLOGIAN WHO CRITICIZED POPE FRANCIS AND TRADITIONIS CUSTODIS

 Pope Leo is appointing a variety of theologians of various theological factions for the listening Church that eventually filters. This appointee needs a listen about TC!

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"Pedro, the rock, begins to roll": a layman highly critical of Traditionis Custodes joins the Theological Commission

Tück wrote in 2021 that Traditionis custodes put papal authority at risk. In May he said that a schism by the FSSPX would be “also good” for clarification.

The 2021 article appeared on July 22 in the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung(NZZ), six days after the publication of the motu proprio, under the title “No to the Old Mass: Pope Francis repeals a decision of his predecessor and thereby endangers the authority of the office.” Tück recalled that Francis had once remarked that he might go down in history as the pope of division, and wrote that “last Friday he almost made that word come true,” because with the decree he had withdrawn “without blinking” the license granted by his predecessor. In his view, by openly correcting Benedict XVI instead of striving for coherence and consistency in the magisterium, the Pope gave many the impression that a pontiff can correct and revise the teaching of his predecessors at will, and that irruption of contingency into magisterial statements, visible to all, threatened to undermine papal authority.

The text acknowledged that there are partial tensions between the ecclesiology of the Council and the Tridentine Mass, and occasional overlaps with the milieu of the political right, but maintained that the argument of instrumentalization applied globally only to the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X. To the Fraternity of Saint Peter and the other groups that expressly recognize the Council and the primacy, he wrote, precisely they were being deprived of “the papal protective roof,” so that they were being punished for their fidelity to the Pope “by the Pope himself.” He also criticized the requirement of Roman authorization for new priests as contradicting the “healthy decentralization” that Francis himself preached, and that leaving the matter to each bishop would produce a mosaic of permissions and prohibitions. “A ban on the old Mass is ultimately an expression of weakness,” he concluded, because it does not trust that the renewed liturgy will impose itself as the best option. At the same time, Tück defended the liturgical reform of the Council, calling it its most visible fruit and, in his judgment, something that “cannot and must not be called into question,” and ended by warning that excluding that tradition ignores its cultural strength and is “tendentially prone to division.”