DeProfundis said:It has become a bogeyman for the Pope who crazily enough has issued many calls to minister to the marginalized; all while marginalizing the brightest lights in the church.powerbelly said:As a non-Catholic this is just mind boggling.Mark Fairchild said:
In the Corpus Christi Diocese we are forbidden to have the TLM. St. John the Baptist was growing and had a fourishing parish, but was shut down by our Bishop. The priest of St. John the Baptist has since left the priesthood since he was no longer allowed to celebrate the TLM. Heartbreaking.
What is the harm of allowing TLM? Is it somehow heretical?
Furthermore, it's not heretical in the slightest. Yet, some say it harms the unity of the Church. To that, I ask "how?" How does the Latin Mass harm unity when the Anglican use supposedly does not? How does the Latin Mass harm unity when the Ambrosian Rite supposedly does not? Dominican Rite? How do the apostolic liturgies of the east not offend against Catholic unity? And why were the liturgical reforms of this committee only a western thing? Today's Vatican is siding with the faction in favor of keeping the Malabar Rite as is rather than with those who wish to Novus Ordo-ize it... and the conflict is rather vitriolic and insane.
Yet I have seen some of our Orthodox brethren that ditching an apostolic liturgy in favor of one drawn up by committee strikes against reunification. More recently, we've seen one Orthodox communion sever communications with Rome do to the double talk in Fidicia Supplicans.
Does not compute. None of it.