This writer has written extensively about the late Pope Francis and his war on the traditional Catholic Latin Mass (TLM). His final dig at priests who celebrated TLM was to say they had a 'mental imbalance, emotional deviation, behavioral difficulties,' embracing the socialist tactic of accusing one's opponent of being crazy.
His Traditionis Custodes gave anti-TLM bishops the leverage to shut down TLM in their dioceses, and some -- like Cupich in Chicago and Vigneron in Detroit -- gladly made the most of it, issuing almost total bans on TLM.
Turns out Traditionis Custodes was based on a lie:
A flagrant lie.
Here's more from Diane Montagna:
This journalist has obtained the Vatican’s overall assessment of the consultation of bishops that was said to have “prompted” Pope Francis to revoke Summorum Pontificum, Benedict XVI’s 2007 apostolic letter liberalizing the vetus ordo, more commonly known as the 'Traditional Latin Mass' and sacraments.
The previously undisclosed text, which forms a crucial part of the official report by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on its 2020 consultation of bishops concerning Summorum Pontificum, reveals that 'the majority of bishops who responded to the questionnaire stated that making legislative changes to Summorum Pontificum would cause more harm than good.'
The overall assessment directly contradicts, therefore, the stated rationale for imposing Traditionis Custodes and raises serious questions about its credibility.
When, on July 16, 2021, Pope Francis promulgated Traditionis Custodes, he said the responses to the questionnaire 'reveal a situation that preoccupies and saddens me and persuades me of the need to intervene.'
Do read her entire piece. It's a fantastic work of journalism.
Shameful, really.
TLM was the normal form of Catholic worship until the 1960s, when those who sought to 'reform' the church did away with it -- and a lot of other pre-Vatican II traditions -- and then ruthlessly enforced those changes.
It needs to be rescinded.
It's done more damage than good.
A very good point.
The entire post reads:
And this, in my estimation, is something far too many Catholics don't want to consider: Pope Francis and Co. worked long and hard to undermine and damage the pontificates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, especially in the realms of moral doctrine and liturgy.
This Catholic considered it, because the agenda was obvious.
That's the summary.
He lied to us. He smeared us. He ostracized us.
Some shephard of souls.
There's a reason it didn't come out during his pontificate.
Amen.
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