The Prohibition of the Traditional Latin Mass is an Abuse of Ecclesiastical Power
In disobeying formally, one in fact obeys the Catholic Church of all ages and all the popes.
In disobeying formally, one in fact obeys the Catholic Church of all ages and all the popes.
The only alternative is to let my brain turn into tapioca by becoming an Ockhamist, and declaring that the word “rite” has no intrinsic meaning at all.
It is amazing how much of the American psyche is bound up with the nations of the British Isles – the traditional “Three Kingdoms” of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
The traditionalist movement in this sense is nothing other than the evidence of the continuity of the one Church of Christ within the sphere of the Latin rite.
The central presupposition is that “The protagonist of the Synod is the Holy Spirit.” But how do we distinguish the Holy Spirit from the zeitgeist? or from the evil spirit?
Seeing old ladies with tears in their eyes as they watched us pass was rather overwhelming.
We continue with our task of opening up something of the riches of the Epistle reading for Sunday’s Holy Mass in the Vetus Ordo, the tried and true Traditional Roman Rite which stengthen virtually all the Roman Church’s saints whom we now venerate. As always, we look at context. A major shift has taken place…