[Elderberry]

January 1, 2017????

[faithhopecharity]

Pope Benedict may quite understandably hesitated at the role of governance or leadership, many do hesitate ———- but he sure did a far better job of it than we’ve seen since

[marshmallow]

Speaking frankly on the topic of Pope Francis' predecessor, Benedict XVI, Burke remarked that "it was not a good thing for the Church to lose its universal shepherd" when Benedict stepped down. "There is a certain feeling among many Catholics that their father abandoned them," he remarked......

Yes!

We've been shouting this in the blogosphere for 5 years but it's quite extraordinary to her a cardinal say it. In a Church which is built on the blood of the martyrs, a pope cannot simply say "I quit".

[piusv]

Notice that Amoris Latitia was never discussed.

[piusv]

You often celebrate Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. May I ask you how you became close to this form, considering that there are so many bishops and cardinals who oppose this return to the pre-conciliar forms?

For me it is a way to remain strongly anchored in Tradition, because the Mass that we have celebrated since 1962 is more or less the Mass we have received from the time of Pope Saint Gregory the Great. In my view—and Benedict XVI has written very well about this—there can be no opposition between the Ordinary Form and the Extraordinary Form. I believe that it is important to keep alive the so-called Extraordinary Form of the Mass to maintain a stronger link with Tradition. I also celebrate many Holy Masses in the Ordinary Form, and it is not a problem for me, but I adhere strongly to the vision that Benedict XVI expressed in his Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. I think that it is a very good thing for the Church to celebrate the Rite of the Mass in its two forms.

Give me a break. Burke is no man of Tradition. As long as he continues to believe that the so-called "Ordinary Form" (aka Novus Ordo Mess) is the same as the Latin Mass, he is just another Man of the Second Vatican Council.

The sooner Catholics realize this, the better.