The cardinal, who was speaking to The College of Cardinals Report just ahead of the illicit consecrations of four bishops of the Society of St. Pius X, also highlighted the absence of discussion on that issue, one he views as a serious schismatic act, and other pressing matters, including the status of the Traditional Latin Mass.
He criticized restrictions imposed by Traditionis Custodes, describing them as a “persecution” of those who are spiritually nourished by worship according to the More Ancient Usage (Usus Antiquior) of the Roman Rite. “There can be no question in anybody’s mind, and Pope Benedict XVI made it so clear: [the vetus ordo] is an eternal good in the Church,” he said, and suggested that Pope Leo could revisit or modify the legislation, noting that papal documents can be revised by successors.
“It is a form of the Roman rite that was celebrated for more than fifteen centuries,” he stressed. “It’s simply so beautiful and the faithful have been nourished spiritually by this form of the Latin rite. This should be allowed freely.”
“It’s been a great enrichment to me as a priest and bishop,” he said. “The greater part of the faithful are just devout Catholics who are trying to live their faith at as intense a level as possible and hand it on. One of the marks of the traditional Latin Mass community is that there are many children, and the parents are very concerned to hand on to their children the Catholic faith.”
As a potential remedy, he called for the establishment of a dedicated Vatican body to support Catholics attached to the older form of the Roman Rite. “We need a dicastery,” he said, so that Catholics who desire to worship according to the extraordinary form “can receive all the sacraments” according to prior liturgical forms.
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