But we also think there may be human reasons – that the Pope currently sees the SSPX as a spot on his pontificate (we guess this). That his most faithful sons he has cast out of the Church. Does he want to go like this to eternity? Perhaps others in Rome think that the Pope has such a moral authority that a solution must be reached with this pontificate, because no one knows who might take over (another guess). Others, such as Cardinal Ratzinger, says things in the Church are so bad that we need urgently a contra force in the Church that will add stability and fight abuses. They are therefore in a hurry because of health of Pope. They on their side wanted to finish these negotiations by Easter. Rome is in a hurry; we are not.
This is a quote I copied and pasted. The whole article reads like an exercise in “How to Be Spiritually Proud.” That’s one thing that makes me uncomfortable about them and other “rad trads,” for want of a better handle: the “more orthodox than thou” attitude. I understand that there are abuses of the NO Mass, but only because I’ve been informed of them on this site. In nearly 17 years as a Catholic, I don’t really think I’ve seen any. Maybe I’ve just had good priests. I think if they had their way, the Indult would be for the NO and the normative Mass would be the TLM and that they cannot wait to rub it in the faces of us “liberals” (not a theologically liberal bone in my body). I would really hate to see that. I’ve heard tell of abuses in the TLM, too, priests glancing at their watch after a rushed mass and saying “21 minutes! Let’s see Father McGuillicudy top that!” and the laity saying the rosary…during Mass! On the other hand, perhaps we, in the American church, have been asking for this, in just the sort of way our mothers once said,“Are you asking for a smack in the pie hole?” We must have the most lax or inherently disobedient hierarchy in all of Christendom…maybe the most morally corrupt, too, given the abuse of those poor children. If they had held the ship steady on course, there would be less of a hue and cry for the “good old days.”
