The Use of Surveys to Mask a Preconceived Agenda

#PopeFrancis said a survey he sent to bishops led him to issue Traditionis Custodes. Only 30% of bishops responded & 50%+ of these had a “neutral or favorable” response to SP. What emerged was how the TLM has taken root & is loved embraced & bearing fruit. https://t.co/UEMe4gVO08

— Diane Montagna (@dianemontagna) July 16, 2021

Bergoglio Doing His Thing

VATICAN--Pope Francis has published a new Motu Proprio, today.

Attached is the Published Document (sans footnotes). pic.twitter.com/1Z6HjJdZnP

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) July 16, 2021

#PopeFrancis issues Apostolic Letter ‘Traditionis Custodes’ in the form of a motu proprio on the use of the Roman Liturgy prior to the reforms of 1970 https://t.co/A9Sh5nXnoD

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) July 16, 2021

VATICAN--Pope Francis has issued an accompanying letter to the new Motu Proprio, setting specific guidelines to the celebration of the Venerable Rite.

Full Letter: https://t.co/wAtsN5yvP6 pic.twitter.com/FAPiZYxqxu

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) July 16, 2021

Pope Francis has made extraordinary changes to the rules governing the Church's celebration of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass.

Here's a look at what's changed, and why:https://t.co/0g12uhCiAz

— The Pillar (@PillarCatholic) July 16, 2021

VATICAN—Very insightful, level headed analysis from @RorateCaeli on the Motu Proprio.https://t.co/gqYLgLahXV

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) July 16, 2021

Whether you're a Catholic or not, @PillarCatholic is a terrific, reliable source of news and informed analysis about the Church. They break news, produce service journalism, and conduct interviews with important newsmakers. Highly recommend.https://t.co/QXX1F8UN5r

— Mike Warren (@MichaelRWarren) July 16, 2021

What Cdl Burke said. https://t.co/Kc8J9AHL6y

— Edward Peters (@canonlaw) July 16, 2021

Protesting the Limits of the Authority of the Patriarch of Rome

After all, one could say that this authority of the bishop of Rome with respect to the Roman rite applies only to the authority that he has over the Roman rite and the patriarchate of Rome, and that this authority could be limited or modified.

What Paul VI did to the liturgy of the [Church] was a tectonic shift, an unprecedented assault on tradition—& therefore truly wrong, unworthy of the papacy, incompatible with the duties of the papal office, wicked in the way in which treason is wicked.https://t.co/ZhWnEFPoIT

— Crisis Magazine (@CrisisMag) July 7, 2021

FIUV Statement

VATICAN—Traditional Catholic group publishes “statement” in @repubblica, a secular Italian outlet reportedly favoured by @Pontifex.

Statement from FIUV is on the “importance of the Apostolic Letter Summmorum Pontificum”. pic.twitter.com/kLduSVXtSF

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) July 4, 2021

More Rumors About the Abolition of SP

URGENT: The Abolition of Summorum Pontificum could come within days or weeks — declarations from Bishops and Cardinals https://t.co/c0emrupVME

— Rorate Caeli (@RorateCaeli) June 30, 2021

Msgr. Bux Interview

++ INTERVISTA A #BUX ++ «#Messa in LATINO, contributo all'#unità dei #cristiani» ++ « Messa in #FORMA STRAORDINARIA non può fermarsi: è il segno della rinascita del #sacro nei cuori. Ed è un contributo all'unità dei cristiani»... https://t.co/976MaJ6Rxy

— la nuova BQ (@lanuovaBQ) June 25, 2021

The Latest from Marco Tosatti

La Messa Tridentina Avversata: Minaccia Clericalismo e Culto della Personalità. https://t.co/JuSGTTzAn0

— Marco Tosatti (@MarcoTosatti) June 11, 2021

Remaking Latin Clerics in His Image

Catholic Cancel Culture by George Neumayr @george_neumayrhttps://t.co/Dsyp93Wd13

— The American Spectator (@amspectator) May 30, 2021

Spectator

The Pope’s Horizontal Church by George Neumayr @george_neumayrhttps://t.co/XCygbhbTix

— The American Spectator (@amspectator) June 6, 2021

"Everyone" Is Waiting

If Francis vandalises Summorum Pontificum, it will be interesting to see how the Integralists explain that to their young fogeys.

— Damian Thompson (@holysmoke) June 5, 2021

Cdl Müller praises Summorum Pontificum, argues against “authoritarianism”: “It takes prudence and respect for groups and people who want to celebrate Holy Mass with the rite adopted until John XXIII, without creating new tensions” https://t.co/ztIdTsBI1q @RicCascioli @lanuovaBQ

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) June 5, 2021

Waiting...

Summorum Pontificum: Un Appello alla Preghiera in Difesa della Messa. https://t.co/Us1zw3uEMq

— Marco Tosatti (@MarcoTosatti) June 4, 2021

Pope Francis believed to be preparing restrictions for the traditional Mass https://t.co/vRgM981CzL

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) June 3, 2021

Disaster looms if Pope Francis restricts the traditional Mass. If Pope Francis can contradict the teaching of Pope Benedict, what is to prevent a future Pontiff from contradicting Pope Francis? https://t.co/DKNdkDwYTQ

— Philip Lawler (@PhilLawler) June 2, 2021

More Details

Details about #PopeFrancis’ plans to restrict the Traditional Latin Mass have been sparse — until now. Here’s the latest: https://t.co/UEMe4gVO08

— Diane Montagna (@dianemontagna) June 2, 2021

Still Waiting to See if SP Is Axed

Pope's Plan to Restrict Traditional Latin Mass Backed by Two Curial Cardinals https://t.co/UEMe4gVO08

— Diane Montagna (@dianemontagna) June 1, 2021

More Speculation About the Future of Summorum Pontificum

Certain groups in the Italian bishops, the Vatican, and a pontifical university are hostile to the Extraordinary Form of the Mass and “are dragging the Pope into a major political mistake,” warns @PaixLiturgique https://t.co/FJzH6ptO8I @NCRegister @messainlatino

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) May 29, 2021

Speculation About the New Head of the CDW

New leadership team at Congregation for Divine Worship shares Pope’s determination to press ahead with post-conciliar liturgical reforms and possibly restrict the Extraordinary Form of the Mass https://t.co/obPeOYhCuW @NCRegister

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) May 28, 2021

A Legitimate Scoop?

Below: English translation of full @messainlatino article @RorateCaeli cited, on #PopeFrancis allegedly telling Italian Bishops he plans to restrict the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass.

Posted with kind permission of MIL (emphasis in original): https://t.co/3yJOzZwSw4 https://t.co/mExbZdFYFn pic.twitter.com/qkPttHaW0h

— Diane Montagna (@dianemontagna) May 26, 2021

Will Bergoglio Pull the Trigger?

Aided by his new choice for the CDW? URGENT: Pope tells Italian Bishops he plans to abolish the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum

LSN on That Survey

Here LifeSite's report on the leaked letter (by @RorateCaeli) of the CDF concerning the Traditional Latin Mass, with responses from several good sources (among them Dr. Kwasniewski, Mr Nardi), some of whom are concerned, and some of whom are not concerned:https://t.co/GynMCIwL4Z

— Maike Hickson (@HicksonMaike) April 24, 2020

LSN

Collegiality for a Good Reason or Not?

Rorate Caeli: BREAKING - IMPORTANT - Summorum Under Threat? - Holy See sends survey to Bishops on Summorum Pontificum (Exclusive)

Dom Alcuin Reid Weighs in on the New Prefaces and Saints for the EF of the Roman Rite

The older form of the Roman rite is alive and well by Dom Alcuin Reid
Observations on Rome’s permission for new saints and more prefaces in the usus antiquior.

Rome moves slowly as we know, and there is no sign as yet of the official enrichment of the missal of Paul VI by its predecessor (that of 1962 and the tradition it transmits) on the horizon—indeed, idolatristic partisans of the missal of Paul VI seem determined to quash any possibility thereof. Their generation may need to reach retirement before a calm study of the question can proceed and bear fruit. In Roman time, that will not be too long.

Now, however, a mere thirteen years after the promulgation of Summorum Pontificum—and numerous consultations and drafts later—we do have precisely that which the bishop could not envisage after dinner in Oxford that evening: the enrichment of the usus antiquior with some modern elements. Lest those who hold the ancient liturgical tradition dear become overly alarmed, it must be said that for the most part this enrichment has been done with care and sensitivity and can be welcomed without difficulty.

Can it be said with justice that the CDF handled this better than it did the Anglican Catholic Missal?

The omission of the preface for Advent amongst those newly permitted is truly odd, for the 1962 missal and its antecedents do not contain one. This must be regarded as a sadly missed opportunity. It would have greater use than some of the others approved. (It could be observed that the season of Advent is the ‘poorer sister’ in the older missal, not having proper Mass formulae for each day, as does Lent. Indeed, there is scope for careful future development here.)

Organic development. Is such a thing possible in a centralized patriarchate such as that of Rome? Wasn't Dom Alcuin Reid was going to discuss it in his sequel to The Organic Development of the Liturgy, but did he scrap that project? Or is he just busy and also waiting to gather more material for the book? According to this interview from a few years ago, he is still working on the book.

The other four prefaces, however, ‘come from’ the missal of Paul VI. Their central texts (the “embolism”) in the versions approved for use now in both new and old missals are practically identical. They have various origins, some quite ancient. But each of these texts as they appear in the missal of the usus recentior (the missal of Paul VI) and which are now permitted for (but which are not imposed on) the usus antiquior, have passed through the ideological sieve of the same study group (18b) of the Post-Conciliar Consilium which substantially edited and evacuated the theological content of the prayers of the missal (the collects, prayers over the gifts and postcommunion prayers), as the painstaking work of Professor Lauren Pristas (The Collects of the Roman Missals, 2013) has more than adequately demonstrated.

In respect of the four prefaces in question a detailed comparative study of their sources and content is necessary. That is impossible here (Anthony Ward and Cuthbert Johnson’s The Prefaces of the Roman Missal, 1989, is an exemplary resource for this). The prefaces of St John the Baptist and of Martyrs are “centonised” texts, that is effectively new compositions of the study group drawing on fragments of older ones. That is to say, they do not appear in liturgical tradition before 1970 in anywhere near the form given them by the Consilium which they now have. The preface of the Angels has an ancient precedent but is nevertheless an edited version of the traditional text. The preface for the Nuptial Mass is also edited, though less severely, without substantially altering the integrity of text.

Pope Benedict’s intention in 2007 was, without doubt, to enrich the usus antiquior with further prefaces. There is nothing wrong with that in principle. However, I very much doubt he intended to visit ‘products’ of the Consilium upon the older missal. It could easily have been augmented with the integral texts found in liturgical tradition. This would avoid the highly likely disdaining of the texts of these latter prefaces because of their at least perceived ‘tainted’ origin or editing in the post-conciliar Consilium. The lack of pastoral care and sensitivity here—seemingly sacrificed for the sake of an unnecessary textual uniformity between both missals—is regrettable and may well jeopardize the intent of the project, at least in part. So-called “traditionalists” can be hyper-sensitive. Offering the addition of at least three of these four texts may well offend those sensitivities.

Looks like I spoke too song about the CDF's handling of this. Did the CDF not consult any real liturgical scholars during the process? (Who would be recognized as such today?)

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