Anyhow back to the point. Three things; (1) The Roman Curia operates within itself in a manner that is rather 'secular' to minds outside its own circle. There are factions who play each other off using strategies drawn more from Machievelli's The Prince than the Fathers of the Church. I suspect at the moment we are the onlookers to a stage in a process that in former times we would have had no knowledge. Somebody must have given a minor official a laptop with a broadband connection for Christmas. (2) There is an 'industry' which maintains itself with this type of reporting and prognosticating. It is in its interests to maintain the interest in such events and its 'tat for tat' approach can be wearisome. Unfortunately for most of us this has the same effect as a lot of the secular media. It causes undue angst. (3) Whilst we need now to be vigilant we really need to wait for the document, should it ever appear, and then make a judgment as to the next course of action. I can't actually see it making any difference immediately to me.
Of course the whole business, I suspect, is just symptomatic of something else as is so often the case with the fripperies of 'curias' whether they be diocesan, national or international. I can't imagine any official effectively hanging himself out to dry over Summorum Pontificum. I can imagine, however, many who would risk doing so to ensure that any further reconciliation with SSPX would not happen during this papacy.
Now where was my bucket of sand?
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Could you explain what is going on, today is the first day I got wind of this, whatever this is.
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ReplyDeleteVarious sources are reporting that a document has been prepared which will limit some aspects of the use of the traditional liturgical books particularly the rite of ordination and the use of the rites of some of the older Religious orders.
ReplyDeleteIf the Vatican must restrict diocesan ordination to the ordinary form rite only, it's worth it to keep the SSPX out of the Church.
ReplyDeleteThe SSPX is not the way forward for the traditional Church. Sure, the inclusion of the SSPX will boost numbers. This boost will come at the steep price of moral credibility. Some SSPX clergy have voiced very strong anti-Jewish and anti-Semitic hatreds. Is every single SSPX clergyman bigoted? Certainly not. Yet the SSPX's opposition to Dignitatis Humanae (and by extension Nostra Aetate) has often rested on a rank anti-Semitism that the institutional Church has taken great pains to atone for in recent years.
Human justice trumps the desire to broaden the traditional community at any cost. We traditional Catholics can live the traditional life justly without a hate group cloaked as a religious order.