September 7, 2023
By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK
Pope Francis regularly curses the “rigid,” “backward-looking” Catholics, as he calls them, who love and revere our Catholic tradition, and all that has been handed down by means of it.
Strange conception of the papacy, this. Rather than pastoral chief shepherd of the worldwide flock we seem to have instead an angry and scolding martinet. One who should be seen as a loving servant of all emits instead a constant drumbeat of negative and discriminatory vituperation against one group within the Church, a group defined by its desire to do what the Church always did, and still does. Selecting out one group within the whole for special abuse resembles more a Marxist political campaign than a Christian family of faith.
The Traditional Mass, rightly the centerpiece of life for Traditional Catholics, has never ceased to be offered by the universal Church throughout the world, in an unbroken “traditio,” or handing on, as the work of the Holy Spirit. To condemn those who rightly revere this inestimable gift as excluded from the larger Ecclesia for that reason marginalizes some who should be loved and cared for along with the rest.
Word came, after the tragedy of Traditionis Custodes broke upon the Catholic world, banishing as it did the Church’s worship from her parish churches, that an earlier version of the document threatened excommunication for Catholics who attended the immemorial Mass. Vatican scuttlebutt indicated that advisers, among them the previous CDF prefect Luis Ladaria, advised against the move as too divisive.
The resulting virtual homelessness of TLM congregations has been further exacerbated by a verbal campaign of name-calling and baiting, led by the Pope himself.
Francis did it once again in Portugal, following World Youth Day, in a question-and-answer session with the local Jesuit community. A young priest, in a curious case of suspiciously random specificity, shall we say, brought up the subject of U.S. Catholics, giving the Pope yet one more opportunity to regurgitate a tired litany of abuse.
Read the rest; https://thewandererpress.com/catholic/news/our-catholic-faith/excommunicating-jesus/
To remain in good company and be a true lover of Jesus, be excommunicated with Him. Jesus has nothing to do with novus disorder. With Him or against Him. He made it so clear for us.
ReplyDeleteThe Athanasian, September, 1983 (The American Concilar Church Bishops and Pax Christi USA by John Kenneth Weiskittel, The WANDERER and The REMNANT: The Conservative Wing of the American Conciliar Church by Fr. Francis Fenton, Joy Amidst Adversity)
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