Italian pastors removed for insisting on traditional liturgy

[Holly3278]

Rome, Jun. 9, 2008 (CWNews.com) - Bishop Renato Corti of Novara, Italy, has formally removed three pastors who were suspended last year because they insisted on celebrating only the traditional Latin Mass.

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I’m sorry but I do not agree with the removal of these three pastors/priests. If they insisted on celebrating only the traditional Latin Mass, they should have been allowed to do so. That is just my own personal opinion though. I personally don’t see why they weren’t allowed to only celebrate the traditional Latin Mass now with the new Motu Proprio out saying that the traditional Latin Mass can be celebrated without the permission of a bishop.

 

[Dale_M]

I personally don’t see why they weren’t allowed to only celebrate the traditional Latin Mass now with the new Motu Proprio out saying that the traditional Latin Mass can be celebrated without the permission of a bishop.

My sense from the article is that they were removed for refusing to provide their parishioners any Mass in the vernacular. Offering TLM is one thing, refusing to obey their bishop is another.

 

[Holly3278]

My sense from the article is that they were removed for refusing to provide their parishioners any Mass in the vernacular. Offering TLM is one thing, refusing to obey their bishop is another.

Yes, you are right. However, if they only wanted to do Mass in the traditional Latin form, they should have been allowed to do that. I’m sure the bishop could have gotten other priests to do Mass in the vernacular for the other parishioners.

 

[LilyM]

Yes, you are right. However, if they only wanted to do Mass in the traditional Latin form, they should have been allowed to do that. I’m sure the bishop could have gotten other priests to do Mass in the vernacular for the other parishioners.

The Bishop shouldn’t have to. They knew what he expected when he accepted them as priests in his diocese and their job is to provide it.

If THEY want only to celebrate the TLM now, then it is for them to, for example, join an organisation that is exclusively devoted to it like the FSSP or ICKSP, and that way gain the right to exclusively say it.

If he tells them to do the NO as well as the TLM, they are sworn to obedience and must do it - it’s not like he’s commanding them to do anything erroneous or sinful in so doing.

 

[jdnrite01]

Yes, you are right. However, if they only wanted to do Mass in the traditional Latin form, they should have been allowed to do that. I’m sure the bishop could have gotten other priests to do Mass in the vernacular for the other parishioners.

I think your position, and that of the removed clerics, is problematic in that it evidences a complete rejection of the Mass of Paul VI. Here’s what *Summorum Pontificum *says about the public celebration of the EF:

§ 2 Celebration in accordance with the Missal of Bl. John XXIII may take place on working days; while on Sundays and feast days one such celebration may also be held.

The obvious import of the section in bold is that the EF is permitted in addition to the OF. Nevertheless, restrictions on the public celebration still exist: Public celebrations on Sundays and feast days are limited to one Mass in addition to regularly scheduled OF Masses, which is emphasized by the italicized text.

This whole thing boils down to the priests’ disobedience to their Ordinary.

 

[KathleenElsie]

Extreme positions are wrong. These priests could petition one of the many TLM only groups to join with them. I am attached to the TLM and it angers me when only the OF is ever offered. So I can understand why someone that is attached to the OF and only the TLM is offered. This works both ways.

 

[Michael_Neal]

I agree that extreme positions either way on this issue are wrong