Ping
I mean Wagga Wagga. I would love to use that as a return address.
“However, the Holy Father instructs that it must be in such a way as to lead us all to celebrate Holy Mass as revised by St Paul VI.”
That’s utter baloney. If this were really about Bergoglio trying to lead “us all” to the missal of Paul VI, there’d be analogous attempts to shut down the various Byzantine/Greek/Eastern missals as well as the Anglican Use, Ambrosian, Dominican etc.
This about a lot things:
1. Formalizing a rejection of B16’s Summorum Pontificum that began the very day that is issued, 7/7/2007.
2. Shutting down a cohort of the Church that is young, energetic and growing.
3. Shutting down and retaliating against the right flank of the Church by a leftist Pope.
4. Attempting to neutralize said right flank to remove it from the battle that’s coming over the changes pressed by the Germans. This is what Bergoglio hints at in his letter when he claims that the TLM crowd “blocks the path” of the Church. We’re an obstacle to his revolution.
Paprocki is taking a different approach than most of the bishops. He’s asserting his authority over all masses in his diocese.
Francis to traditional Catholics: Pox vobiscum
I have been to Wagga Wagga. Has a coffee at Oz’s firsr “McCafe” It is on the way to Mt Kusciusko and Yarangobilly cave. That was a fun trip.