THE LATIN MASS BRIGADE v POPE FRANCIS & VATICAN II.

The issue is that Pope Francis and some advisors, maybe the dreadful Arthur Roche, pal of Jimmy Saville (who at least hopefully doesn’t have a major budget, except for office operations, in the Vatican, like did in Leeds bringing to the brink of bankruptcy) identify some marginal people on Twitter and other social media as representing tradition Catholics. Calling the liturgy of Paul VI ‘the sole expression’ of the Roman Rite is to contradict even Paul himself, who via his Vincentian liturgist Bugnini, granted many, many indults for the old Mass. It contradicts too what JP2 and Benedict did to restore a wound. Now some old men in the Vatican who see that most don’t regard V2 as a Super Dogma (it’s a Council, an important once, but there were many) want to try destroy demographically thriving TLM parishes (plus Reform of the Reform New Mass parishes) rather than admit their ‘People of God’ reading of V2, that the Church before it was in eclipse, is just nonsense. Two liturgies which are both beautiful existing side by side, rather than treating one as an annoyance, is the better thing.
Perhaps the intent is to drive trads to the SSPX. Francis had a friendly meeting in March with SG Fr Pagliarini, discussing mainly their times in Buenos Aires, football, and the like, according to an SSPX attending layman who is well informed. Pagliarini is Italian by birth, and Francis is so by his father with his mother one generation removed from the old country. Earlier Francis granted faculties on Confessions and so on, which were declared permanent.
‘No pastoral agenda’ is odd since the many, many young family at a traditional are a fact while their complete lack at any diocesan Mass lacking a major migrant component is also a fact. Catholicism in Ireland as a mainstream activity faces collapse whether from aging believers and very few priests. Yet Francis would apparently rather the Church be dead like it is in Belgium or the Netherlands.
The ‘smell of the sheep’ is a bit cringe from Francis. Francis won’t dare show his face in Argentina lest people ask him about his extravagant help to the paedophile priest Grassi, even after a friendly socialist government was elected. His confused words and gestures (his only option is to condemn Putin the terrorist and Kirill the corrupt) on Ukraine is leading many to call him the Z Pope. The deaths suffered in heavily Catholic Lviv apparently mean nothing to the Argentine. Scorn for Francis is becoming quite a popular thing now outside a small cohort horrified by what seems his deliberate protection of paedophiles like Grassi and Inzoli and sem abusers like Barros and Zanchetta with Maradiaga combining that with swindling people of their inheritance. And it doesn’t matter for Ukraine as Putin’s war is collapsing with them retreating from Kherson and mining it and TC will likely be even more ignored once nature takes it course. This is sad to say, but unfortunately realistic.
Ray Burke is said by more than a few to have a fussy, matronly mien and Schneider should know better for unlike the now idled Burke, he does have actual pastoral responsibilities with a diocese of most descendants of Germans and Poles deported by Stalin to Kazakhstan. Grifting US book tours should be a much lower priority. Francis and Schneider were all smiles when both met recently. Perhaps both just know it’s just business, as they say in the movies.

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