Okay, people in Rome: you agree we should be using Latin, right… decreed by the Council…oh, and what about chant…decreed by the Council. I find it sadly amusing that the Dicastery can’t even follow their own decree, since, leading the faithful towards the celebration of the liturgy according to the current liturgical books is, in fact, leading them away from the decrees of Vatican II. Sorry – long screed, but that’s what I’m teaching my own kids. It’s cognitive dissonance on all sides!īetter solution? We work to better understand and define the limits of papal authority (the pope can no more get rid of a book of the Bible or one of the sacraments than he can order the sun to stop rising or ban the immemorial liturgy of the Church) and recognize that a pope can abuse his authority while still being the pope, and that the solution needs to come from building structured and sound resistance against such abuse and not either abolishing the papacy or praying for the Pope Pius X the magically be reincarnated and take back the papal throne. We live in a world were liberals now love the pope because he pushes their agenda, “conservatives” bend over backwards to try to pretend the pope isn’t really doing or saying the bad things he’s doing or saying because they can’t reconcile the concept of a pope doing or saying bad things, traditionalists praying for some new pope to show up and solve all the problems, and sedevacantists who have practically thrown the entire papacy out the window (and I count those who thought Benedict was still pope and not Francis in the sedevacantist group). Kids need to understand authority, respect authority, and be able to recognize when a legitimate authority is being abused and how best to respond to that WITHOUT simply trying to delegitimize the authority. It’s an opportunity to teach the younger generation to avoid the hyperpapalism trap (something that I think will be named a heresy at some point in the future) whereby people erroneously think the pope wields “limitless” and “unquestionable” authority. Rather, this has been an excellent opportunity in my household to teach about the fallibility of man, the history of men failing in their obligations and leadership positions (the history of the Papacy is fraught with bad to incredibly awful popes – Bergoglio may be a different flavor of terrible, but conceptually bad popes have come and gone and far more often than the saintly popes), and the legitimate boundaries of authority. Leave that for future years and future Magisterial decrees to make sense of. That is, truly, one of those situations where the average layman is better off not trying to judge a pope. Lord Save us, we a father of 7, I would recommend not spending too much time trying to determine if the pope is a heretic and if, at what point, he loses the legitimate use of his office. I fear my kids will drop the faith BECAUSE they have to go to a sloppy new rite with jokes, guitars and drums, banality and ugliness. But I do know that the new Rite has been an absolute disaster for millions in my country of Canada. I believe in the validity of the new Rite, that is not a question. If it were not for the Old Rite and the faithful preaching and clear faith taught to us, we would have all left the Church years ago. All of my siblings will tell you the same. I have five siblings and we were raised as Indult kids. The news of the Latin Mass being crushed is harder to bear and I have already cried real tears over this. The last time I cried was 13 years ago when my Father passed away. I fear for my four sons and my daughter and the Church they will grow up in. I wonder if Roche saw to it that will and wishes of the Holy Father were respected with Summorum Pontificum? All I see in the Church today is a bunch of bullies concerned mostly with sodomy.
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