Vatican Sec. of State Parolin to French Bishops: Help Trads "disoriented" with Traditionis Custodes

Rorate Caeli ^ | November 4, 2022 | New Catholic

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Vatican Sec. of State Parolin to French Bishops: Help Trads "disoriented" with Traditionis Custodes

 Message sent by the Vatican Secretary of State, Card. Parolin, to the French Episcopal Conference meeting this week in Lourdes:

The Holy Father Pope Francis wishes to assure you and all the members present [at the 2022 Fall Plenary Assembly] of his prayer and his fraternal and spiritual support. 

 

 

 At a time when the Church of France is once again shaken by the drama of abuse on the part of some of its pastors, he invites you, with your eyes fixed on the cross of Christ, not to be discouraged but to persevere in the assurance that the Holy Spirit will accompany your efforts, which will once again be the object of your work. He knows your determination to give the Church of France its true missionary face, and he encourages you to go forward with audacity and discernment. 

 More than ever you are called to address the wounds of the people of God. The victims of these abuses, in the first place, but also all the scandalized, disappointed and tested people, in particular your priests whose beautiful ministry is dishonored and made even more difficult, and who need your closeness more than ever. 

 Pope Francis also invites you to the greatest solicitude and fatherhood towards those people - especially young people, priests and laity - who are disoriented by the Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes, which you will be working to implement. They are often wounded sheep who need to be accompanied, listened to and given time. 

 Care and respect for the most fragile people will also be part of your work as you reflect on how to help your society find just laws for the end of life. The Holy Father prays that a debate based on truth and free of ideology will take place in your country, and that your voice will be heard. 

 Aware, therefore, of the difficulty and importance of the issues you will face, Pope Francis calls upon you for the gifts of the Holy Spirit. He entrusts you to the intercession of Our Lady of Lourdes and of all the saints of France, and he gives you his heartfelt blessing.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin

Secretary of State of His Holiness

Vatican, October 27, 2022

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Sorry to burst your bubble, Cardinal Parolin, but Traditional Catholics are not "disoriented". They are outraged. They know that NO POPE has the authority to ban or lead to extinction the Traditional rites of the Church. Not Paul VI, and certainly not Francis, the great Jesuit mistake of 2013

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They know that NO POPE has the authority to ban or lead to extinction the Traditional rites of the Church. Not Paul VI, and certainly not Francis, the great Jesuit mistake of 2013

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[G Larry]

Note the distinction between “disoriented” and “committed”....

[Deo volente]

“Care and respect for the most fragile people will also be part of your work as you reflect on how to help your society find just laws for the end of life.”

God forgive me, but my first thought was will this Pope try to muddy the waters on the Church’s teachings on euthanasia? I certainly hope not!

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We don’t have a situation where Francis is occupying and promoting the “center” and fighting progressives and others. This is shown per a Pew Research poll (and reinforced by other, similar polls) that Novus Ordo adherents lean progressive given that 51% of them adhere to the heretical, pro-choice position on abortion.

Lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi. In conjunction with this, “Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.” (Mt. 7:20, Douay-Rheims).

Only 1/3 Catholics believe in the Real Presence with 2/3 of Catholics thus being protestant and not adhering to what the church has always taught. Further, the Council of Trent affirmed that only consecrated hands being allowed to touch the Eucharistic host was an “Apostolic Tradition”, bolstered by St. Sixtus who affirmed in his time, c. 115 AD, that only consecrated hands were allowed to touch Sacred objects.

This gives insight into the Apostolic Tradition as opposed to the novel, Johnny-come-lately, Novus Ordo oft-complete with a lack of canonical rubrics, outlandish behaviors from priests and laypeople alike, and so on, numerous examples of such over the decades even to recent available on video.

[NorthMountain]

They are often wounded sheep who need to be accompanied, listened to and given time.

Wounded? By whom? Oh, yes: by the author of Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes. How 'bout you QUIT STABBING "YOUR" SHEEP IN THE BACK????

[irishjuggler]

It’s crazy and also kind of hilarious that Bergoglio thinks that the TLM folks “need time.” I’ve been at crowded TLMs at which the median age of the congregants is about 25. That’s 60 years younger than Bergoglio. He’ll be long gone before many of the TLMers are even shaving.