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That’s where you run into problems in a diocese like Boston, let’s say. Boston has five branches of Franciscans, Jesuits, Dominicans, Carmelites, Daughters of Charity, De La Salle Christian Brothers, Poor Clares, Trappists, and diocesan priests from Ireland, Italy, Portugal and the USA.I was kidding.
Still, I wouldn’t mind a completely traditional diocese.
All of them have their customs and traditions. To be a traditional diocese in Boston, means that you have to do what the Cardinal does. He encourages each group to be who they are. This means that they are going to be very different from each other. They will pray differently, celebrate different forms of the mass, have different devotions, different forms of religious art and religious music and all of those are part of Catholic tradition.
If I’m not mistaken, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston overlaps with one of the Eastern Catholic dioceses, which brings another bag of traditions in to the Catholic mix. Last I heard, the number of Eastern Catholics in that area is growing.
The tradition that the SSPX embraces is certainly very Catholic, but it’s very secular Catholic. It’s the core of Catholic tradition, but it has to allow the other Catholic traditions to grow form it. This means that there will be diversity, not uniformity.
The day that you get an SSPX, Dominican, Franciscan and a Salesian to celebrate mass the same way, I’ll eat the cowl on my habit. I don’t wear a hat.
Fraternally,
Br. JR, FFV
