Victory against the sandalistas of the Catholic church

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The author of the article has a blog with a transcript of the interview with Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos.
Damian Thompson (Telegraph): Your Eminence, would the Holy Father like to see ordinary parishes in England with no knowledge of the Gregorian Rite introduced to it?
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CC: Yes, of course. We cannot celebrate this without knowledge of the language, of the signs, of the ways of the Rite, and some institutions of the Church are helping in that way.
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DT: So would the Pope like to see many ordinary parishes making provision for the Gregorian Rite?
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CC: All the parishes. Not many – all the parishes, because this is a gift of God. He offers these riches, and it is very important for new generations to know the past of the Church. This kind of worship is so noble, so beautiful – the deepest theologians’ way to express our faith. The worship, the music, the architecture, the painting, makes a whole that is a treasure. The Holy Father is willing to offer to all the people this possibility, not only for the few groups who demand it but so that everybody knows this way of celebrating the Eucharist in the Catholic Church.
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Anna Arco (The Catholic Herald): On that note, would you like to see all the seminaries in England and Wales teach the seminarians how to celebrate in the Extraordinary Form?
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CC: I would like it, and it will be necessary. We are writing to the seminaries, we are in accord that we have to make deep preparation not only for the Rite, but for [teaching] the theology, the philosophy, the Latin language …
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blogs.telegraph.co.uk/ukcorrespondents/holysmoke/june08/traditionallatinmass.htm

That is just an excerpt from the interview.
 
“They are tired of seeing smug lay ministers of Holy Communion parading around the altar as if they were priests, of endless bidding prayers about climate change, and above all by the fake folk music imposed on them by bad amateur composers.”

Ain’t that the truth
 
Cardinal Castrillon, president of the pontifical commission Ecclesia Dei, can expect to become a hate figure for Sandalistas. This will not worry him. Before he moved to the Vatican, he took on none other than Pablo Escobar, the notorious drug smuggler. Disguised as a milkman, he negotiated a truce with him – and also heard his confession on the spot.
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A man who has faced up to Colombia’s most feared drugs baron will not be intimidated by a few geriatric Catholic trendies.
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Wow!

The pope ain’t the only holiness in our midst it would seem. Thank God for sending workers to his vine.
 
I did not know that about the Cardinal and Pablo Escobar.

Interesting.
 
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