"All TLM's forbidden in Italian Diocese"

[universalindult]

The former bishop, Msgr. Domenico Calcagno Agno, was promoted in July by Pope Benedict XVI

The bishop’s position was open since July, but only two days after the current diocesan administrator made this colossally stupid move, a new bishop is appointed. Read between the lines, folks.

God bless Pope Benedict XVI!!!

 

[WILKINS]

I have heard of that news through the internet radio station using my STILETTO satellite radio because it so happen that I was in a cafe and I don’t know what to say…
I just wish everything would turn out for the better for the players and those people around…

 

[Semper_Fi_1]

I wonder when a bishop is going to forbid the NO Mass? I just mean, all things being equal…

The point of the Motu Proprio was that no Bishop can forbid a priest from saying any valid Roman Rite liturgy. The NO is valid, as is the TLM, like it or not.

 

[m134e5]

I hope people here realize this scandal is actually a very good thing. This is just the spark to get the Ecclesia Dei commission clarifying things and exposing the disobedient bishops. This is making news headlines and it cant just be brushed under the rug.

It is very clear this act of the bishop is going to backfire.

There is a distinction here that needs to be made…

This was not done by a bishop. The diocese in question does not have a bishop right now. This was done by a monsignor (a distinguished priest, named by a bishop for whatever reason) who is administrator of the vacant diocese. This is a distinction that needs to be made. Even a bishop cannot forbid the TLM- a priest who happens to be administrator because of the absence of a bishop has even less authority to do so.

 

[Catholic_Dude]

There is a distinction here that needs to be made…

This was not done by a bishop. The diocese in question does not have a bishop right now. This was done by a monsignor (a distinguished priest, named by a bishop for whatever reason) who is administrator of the vacant diocese. This is a distinction that needs to be made. Even a bishop cannot forbid the TLM- a priest who happens to be administrator because of the absence of a bishop has even less authority to do so.

That is very interesting. So it wasnt even a bishop who said this.

 

[jj2011]

A new bishop was just appointed, so all eyes are watching how he will handle this situation.

 

[Aramis]

If the bishop knows that none of the priests are trained in the TLM, he can and should bar them from mangling it.

The Requirement is that they be allowed to the TLM privately it they are trained in doing it.

At the moment, there is effectively a bar on the TLM in Anchorage not due to hostility, but due to a lack of trained priests willing to do so. (Almost none of the current non-retired priests in the archdiocese were priests before 1965… few even go back pre-1970… and the bishop is sending a few volunteers off to learn it.)

The MP requires priests to be trained in the TLM before saying it. (It seems to presume they are trained in the NO, a reasonable assumption given the average age at ordination is in the mid 20’s, and it’s been 35 years since it was normative.)

So, it is possible that all the serving priests were trained only to the NO, and shouldn’t be saying the TLM without proper training.

Not saying it is the case, but it might be, and charity requires giving the benefit of the doubt until there is proof otherwise.