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He [Volpi] prohibited the celebration of the holy Mass and of the liturgy of the hours in the extraordinary form, provided for by the Motu proprio Summorum pontificum; he deposed the entire general government of the order, starting from its founder, Fr. Stefano Maria Manelli, who finds himself under house arrest without even knowing the reasons why; he has deprived of authority and transferred, one after the other, the most faithful collaborators of Fr. Manelli, all people of intellectual and moral standing, giving their duties to dissident Friars, often uncultured and deprived of experience in governing; he has threatened and punished the Friars who sent a petition to the Holy See and who refused to withdraw it; lastly, with a diktak dated 8th December 2013, he has closed the seminary, suspended the priestly and diaconal ordinations; struck the publications of the Casa Mariana with an interdict, prohibiting their distribution in churches and sanctuaries entrusted to the religious; he has extended his personal war to the tertiaries and laity who sustain the Institute, suspending all the activities of the MIM (Mission of the Immaculate Mediatrix) and of the TOFI (Third Order Franciscans of the Immaculate); he has threatened to have the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate commissioned and removed from them and from the Poor Clares of the Immaculate the spiritual assistance of the Friars; finally he wants to impose upon the Friars a “modernistic vow” of faithfulness to the Novus Ordo Missae and to the II Vatican Council (to read the letter click here).

But I thought the Bergoglio, on his own initiative, because he absolutely hated the Vetus Ordo, sought to suppress the celebration of the liturgy in the Extraordinary Form. At least that was the conclusion a few folks had a few months ago.

Sorry, I can't help you. I'm a Bergoglio agnostic. I don't know if he is a great and holy but misunderstood saint or if he is a total train wreck. And I've given up trying to figure it out. When his pontificate is over I'll read the histories and try to figure out what he was really up to. Until then I've turned off most Catholic discussions and all politics and I'm going back to simple prolife work.