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I’m surprised. Fr Z was very good on this one.

There are a couple of Usus Antiquor rite masses here, and they’re awful and the people are nuts. And the music is horrible, even worse than the Novus Ordo stuff.

Maybe the traditionalists who foam at the mouth and wonder why their bishop isn’t thrilled about the idea of any more traditional rite masses - in fact, why nobody can be found who would even commit to going to them, much less celebrating them - should take a good look in the mirror.

Aside from that, in the case of this monastery, I think there may be other issues. Some of the Latin American traditional rite groups have had problems with homosexuals getting in and hiding in them (remember the “Community of St John”?) and it sounds to me as if the visitor was trying to clean up other problems by reducing the power of a particular group.

Official statement of the Founder of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, Fr. Stefano M. Manelli, F.I.:

Con riferimento al Decreto della Congregazione per gli Istituti di Vita Consacrata e le Società di Vita Apostolica dell’11 luglio 2013 (Prot. n. 52741/2012), P. Stefano M. Manelli, con tutto l’Istituto dei Frati Francescani dell’Immacolata unito a lui, obbedisce al S. Padre e confida che da questa obbedienza ne vengano grazie più grandi.

...translation:
With reference to the Decree of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life of July 11, 2013 (Prot. N. 52741/2012), Fr. Stefano M. Manelli, with the entire Institute of the Franciscans of the Immaculate united with him, obeys the Holy Father and trusts that with this obedience there may come even greater graces.

The link is here: http://absoluteprimacyofchrist.org/pope-francis-franciscans-of-the-immaculate-vetus-ordo/