Who Is Bishop Michael Olson?

Having read some comments about the Franciscan case, and now this case, a concern mentioned was that those offering the Tridentine Mass were using the form as a sort of protest, almost a passive-aggressive statement.

Even if this were so, how would it ever be a cause for the restriction of the Mass? Just consider how many parishes out there use their Mass as a protest in some manner. There was a bit of a kerfuffle recently when the Archbolds pointed out a parish in Wisconsin which was run by a deacon and promoted all sorts of dubious ideas with their celebration of the Mass. Now, I wonder just why we never hear about the ordinary there, or anywhere else where such silly things are being preached or acted out, banning the Novus Ordo for that church. Isn't it strange that all the fruitcake nominally Catholic communities out there which make the Novus Ordo into a massive joke, or certainly try, and cause scandals galore with their abuses, never get their Mass banned?

Here where I live three of our five churches are simply unrecognizable as Catholic, being rife with error and abuse, and the others aren't winning any awards for orthodoxy. And we have no traditional churches. But, are we to believe that of the almost 90 parishes in Fort Worth this little traditional chapel is the only one engaging in dubious preaching and actions? Or even that their TLM is the most dangerous one in that diocese for the souls of the faithful? No, sorry, but I don't buy it. And yet I guarantee we won't see a single church which uses their Novus Ordo as a protest, or as a means of preaching error or encouraging heteropraxis, get their Mass banned in that diocese. Not one. I would love to know why that is.

How can the Bishop do that after Pope Benedict said in “Summorum Pontificum” that no priest needs permission from anyone to offer the TLM?

He can use the letter of the law to do an end run around the spirit of the law. FMC has a private chapel and he can withhold the Eucharist from those who worship there. Apparently using the Eucharist as a "weapon against" pro-abortion politicians is considered unacceptable by bishops, but using the Eucharist as a weapon against those who prefer the TLM is a legitimate tactic. The hypocrisy on display here is stunning.

“The College of Saints John Fisher & Thomas More (commonly Fisher More College or Fisher More Catholic College) is a private Catholic liberal arts college based in Fort Worth, Texas.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_College_of_Saints_John_Fisher_%26_Thomas_More

Just because it’s in the Diocese of Ft. Worth doesn’t necessarily mean that it is under the control of the Diocese.

They need to appeal to a higher court - like Cardinal Burke at the Apostlic Signatura. He will have the answer as to whether the Bishop’s actions are legitimate or not according to Canon Law.

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