I will write a letter and send it to the Vatican. The Pope will probably never see it. Some low level modernist priest will read throw it in the trash and send me a prayer card while thanking me for the letter.
Your cynicism is astounding here. How typical, to complain about some imaginary modernist priest in the Vatican who will censor everyone’s writings to the Pope!
The faithful have been writing to the Vatican for years. They don’t care.
If your hypothetical modernist priest is conspiring to censor all the writings of the traditionalists so the Pope and hierarchy won’t know what’s
really wrong with the Church, how can you accuse them of not caring when they don’t know?
Or, maybe they do care, but they have better ideas about the good of the Church than your traditionalist letter-writing campaign. Ever thought of that?
Michael Davies who should be a saint, was the great traditionalist and liturgical writer following Vatican II. I suggest people buy his booklets. Pope Benedict knows what Michael Davies has written.
Cardinal Semper , the prefect of the CDF before Ratzinger, told Davies in a meeting that they read his books and that they longer control the U.S. bishops and Church.
Source?
If Davies said that, I’d be very skeptical of him. Frankly I prefer to have faith in the Church and not listen to conspiracy theories. And there’s no evidence that Rome has lost all control over the Church in America.
National Conferences of Bishops were a huge mistake. They have become mini-Vaticans. They have no authority. Under Church law, the local ordinay has power and jurisdiction in liturgy. The Church needs to strengthen the local bishop and remove the bureaucracy.
This is sheer hypocrisy. It is the traditionalists like the SSPX, not the USCCB, who have in effect become “mini-Vaticans”. Yes, the local ordinary has power and jurisdiction in liturgy, within the rubrics of the Missal of course. Problem is, traditionalists of the SSPX sort (you said you supported the SSPX in another thread) do not, in practice if not in theory, acknowledge that power and jurisdiction. That’s why they have their own bishops (consecrated against the express wishes of Pope JP2). For you to accuse the American bishops of what your own traditionalist friends are guilty of is hypocrisy of the most blatant kind.
His sermons and lecures have been classic Ratzinger. As a theologian and professor, they are overly intellectual. The Pope needs to keep it simple. They don’t have enough edge. The Pope is too humble and as Pope he needs to rebuke and be more forceful. His rebukes have been to mild and naunce.
How can you expect him to be less than he is? Do you want him to “dumb down” for people? If he did you would complain about that too. And was St. Thomas Aquinas overly intellectual? What about Pope St. Pius X?
I also was sad to see the Pope give Communion in the hand. I wish that he would understand that reverence and sacredness of Communion on the toungue had been tradition for 800 years and the ultimate development of doctrine.
What makes you think he does
not understand the reverence and sacredness of COTT? Just because CITH is allowed doesn’t mean COTT shouldn’t be (and vice-versa). You’re engaging in either-or type thinking here.
Did you know CITH was widely practiced in the Early Church?
And “development of doctrine”??? Since when is one’s method of receiving Communion a “doctrine”? You’re confusing Tradition with tradition here.
I am not the only one. Many traditionalists have stated that we are in a crisis and state of emergency. Many bishops and Cardinals have made similar remarks. Cardinal Ratzinger and Pope Paul II have alluded to crisis in their statements over the years.
Well of course we’re in a crisis. No one here is denying that; you’re beating down a straw man. Where the traditionalists and other Catholics differ is on the remedy for that crisis. We simply don’t agree that the problem is the OF or Vatican II.
The SSPX, FSSP, and ICK are the future for the priesthood.
You shouldn’t lump together the FSSP and ICK with the SSPX. The former two are in good standing with the Church; the latter are not. If the SSPX is the future for the priesthood, we’d better hope they reconcile with Rome.
The FSSP and ICK are valid religious order of priests with approval from Rome. They are exploding with men, unlike the other orders and diocese priests who are shrinking.
That’s good! We need more holy priests.
I will pray for you and all the other Novus Ordo Catholics who have not opened their eyes to the reality of decadence everywhere in the Church, world, and family. By the grace of God and due to my young age, I will outlive you. Those who are older and will face the Lord need the most prayers.
I’ll pray for you too, but I would like to point out that you are making an entirely unwarranted assumption when you say we have not opened our eyes “to the reality of decadence everywhere in the Church, world, and family.” I’ve already pointed out that we know there is a crisis in the Church today, so there’s no need to accuse us of being blind.
