Thread by @DrSamuelGregg

I am not a Latin Mass attender and am well aware of the unhealthy views of a small minority of Latin Mass attendees, but one wonders why a similar papal response has not been unleashed upon the outright heresies of numerous German bishops. 1/ #TraditionisCustodes

Or the grave liturgical abuses that are commonplace with numerous Novus Ordo masses throughout the entire world and which have been going on for decades. 2/

Or the appalling formation of young Catholics in the West since Vatican II. 3/

Or the moral and financial corruption of a good number of religious orders. 4/

Or the dismal state of so many Catholic universities in which the faith is treated as an embarrassing relic at worst or just another vaguely religious but basically secular social justice movement. 5/

Or the reduction of the church in many countries to an adjunct to the welfare state. 6/

Or the fact that, for a good number of Catholic clergy of a certain age, it’s very clear that they don’t believe that the Scriptures were written by eyewitnesses and the extraordinary events they saw actually happened - including miracles and the Resurrection. 7/

Again, I am not a Latin Mass attender (though I think priests should be free to say it) and have no problem with the Novus Ordo mass. But the force of papal authority applied to a problem afflicting a minority within a minority of people will strike many as odd, even bizarre. 8/

The sad irony is that I have no doubt that the vast majority of Latin Mass attendees will obey their bishops as they implement #TraditionisCustodes - unlike church tax rich German bishops who routinely ignore or deny settled Church teaching on basic faith and moral questions. 9/