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/

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1/ Since there’s been some discussion about #FratelliTutti’s presentation of Saint Francis of Assisi, let me list various FACTS that undermine some MYTHS about this holy man in a Thread.👇
2/ As I recently noted, Saint Francis told the Muslim Sultan al-Kamil he was there to explicate the truth of the Christian faith and save the sultan’s soul. He was not there for diplomatic pleasantries. #FratelliTutti
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1/ With the #NewmanCanonisation imminent, it’s worth remembering Newman’s devastating critique of liberalism in religion in his famous Biglietto Speech in a Thread. Here’s some of his more pointed remarks about liberal religion. #AmazonSynod people may be interested.
2/ Newman noted the “one great mischief I have from the first opposed myself. For thirty, forty, fifty years I have resisted to the best of my powers the spirit of liberalism in religion.” #NewmanCanonisation
3/ “Never,” Newman said, “did Holy Church need champions against [liberal religion] more sorely than now, when, alas! it is an error overspreading, as a snare, the whole earth.” #NewmanCanonisation
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1/ Since it’s the Feast-Day of Saint Francis of Assisi #francisofassisi, I’ll do my now annual listing of FACTS that undermine some MYTHS about this holy man in a Thread. #AmazonSynod folks may be especially interested.
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3/ Saint Francis articulated no legal or social reform program whatsoever. Such projects were “alien” to him. #francisofassisi
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