Martin Mosebach: Francis’ anti-trad diktat “comes too late”; “the spirit of tradition cannot be put back into the bottle … has grown so much under Benedict XVI that he can no longer enforce its prohibition at all.”

Martin Mosebach has criticised Pope Francis' conduct of office. The author told the Neue Züricher Zeitung (Thursday) that the Pope must defend the "two-thousand-year-old tradition against the respective present". However, Francis does not want to take on this role, Mosebach said. Orthodoxy is a burden for the pontiff "and not the Church's tried and tested guarantee of survival". From him, the incumbent Pope gets "very bad marks".

Mosebach also criticised the Pope's restrictions on the traditional Mass. "He has given the bishops the right to ban the old liturgy where it is celebrated. But he has not given them the right to allow it," Mosebach said. In doing so, he said, the Pope had severely limited the bishops' decision-making power, whereas otherwise he delegated many decisions to the bishops. "But his Dictatus Papae comes too late, because the spirit of tradition cannot be put back into the bottle. The tradition has grown so much under Benedict XVI that he can no longer enforce its prohibition at all," Mosebach added.

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