The Remnant has a matter of fact article on it’s site now. Don’t know if I am allowed to post a link so go to the site if you want to read it.
Even though the Pope is apparently not friendly to Traditionalists the article points out there is little if any interest in the TLM in South America. Even the SSPX has just a tiny presence. So you need to keep that in context.It’s not on the radar there it seems.
Interesting read with the author having lived in South America for a number of years. Check it out.
I read in some other article that the then archbishop of Buenos Aires has provided a priest and a space for the celebration of the EF within 48 hours after SP was promulgated. However, the EF has not taken off in that city, not because of the archbishop, but because there is not an interest on the part of the faithful nor are there priests interested in celebrating it.
This is where the Latin mass movement sometimes rubs people the wrong way. One has to be very careful. When there is a group that wants the EF, there should be support for that group. When there is a priest who wants to celebrate it, unless he is a religious, the bishop should help him resolve such things as scheduling conflicts, etc in order to celebrate it.
On the other hand, when there is not an interest or there is no priest who wants to celebrate it, we should not make it our mission to impress it upon people.
This is when it comes across as if we have two Catholic Churches side by side and that they are in competition. We want to avoid this impression. It does not represent the Church well. There is one Church. There is only one Roman Rite, not two. There is the freedom to choose between the two forms of the Roman Rite.
Those who oppose the EF and those who push it are equally wrong. There is nothing to oppose. The Tridentine form has been part of our history as much as many other forms. It has a place in the Church. To deny it that place is a mistaken understanding of ecclessiology. Until the Church formally abolishes it, which I doubt will ever happen, no one has a right to oppose it.
On the other hand, the Tridentine Form is the extraordinary form. It is not the norm and it is the not the mind of the Church to make it the norm. Therefore, it is wrong to campaign in order to “convert” (observe quotation marks) others to the Tridentine Form. People should come freely as they would to anything else that is optional. There should be no attempt to sell them something that they don’t need.
In the case of Buenos Aires, one gets the impression that they don’t need the Tridentine Form. If they needed it, they would have more of it. If the story is true that the archbishop provided a space and that there was a priest available within 48 hours, then there is no EF, because there was no further interest. That happens.
It’s a very beautiful letter. I love the fraternal spirit of it.
Maybe it’s me but doesn’t anyone else find the term “simple people” somewhat degrading if not condescending or offensive?
I admit “Keeping things simple” sounds like a nice slogan but in reality is any creature of Creation that simple?
Not at all. Again, as I have said many times this week, this is where the faithful, all of us, will have to get used to the MO of religious life. The expression “simple people” is found in almost every rule and constitution of religious life. We serve simple people. We are called to be simple people. Christ came for simple people. He lived among simple people and so forth. These expressions are all over the writings of religious founders and their sons.
Because we have not had a religious pope in so long, the Catholic community has not heard this term too often. It’s not part of the vocabulary of typical secular clergy. The secular clergy is not part of the simple people. It’s usually part of the middle class. This kind of language is not too common in that population. You do find it here and there. It’s not totally absent either.
