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Traditionis Custodes - Rewriting History

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JMJ

One Peter Five has posted an article by Dr. Shaw and it would appear that some history is being rewritten by Archbishop Nichols. In proof of this I offer the except below:


This is found in the last page of the Archbishop's commentary.  It appears that his Eminence is referring to the alleged abrogation of the Tridentine Mass. 

I guess he didn't get the memo.

Even more disconcerting is the allegation that the Tridentine Mass is at variance withe the Conciliar reform (been there ... done that) and "an eccleisology that is not part of the Church's Magisterium".

Perhaps he is not referring to the Tridentine Mass an only the other texts (brevioury, ritual, et).

P^3


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I see that Fr. Hunwicke noticed the same thing:

Benedict XVI wrote, in his Letter to the Bishops: "In the history of the liturgy there is growth and progress, but no rupture. What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful." He was, in fact, reiterating the teaching he gave when he was Prefect of the CDF: "After the Second Vatican Council, the impression arose that the pope really could do anything in liturgical matters, especially if he were acting on the mandate of an ecumenical council. Eventually, the idea of the givenness of the liturgy, the fact that one cannot do with it what one will, faded from the public consciousness of the West. In fact, the First Vatican Council had in no way defined the pope as an absolute monarch. On the contrary, it presented him as the guarantor of obedience to the revealed Word. The pope's authority is bound to the Tradition of Faith ..."

And this is in line with the Decree by which S Pius V promulgated his 1570 edition of the Roman Missal. This Decree is often misrepresented. People talk and write as if S Pius imposed his edition on the West, while allowing earlier rites to continue.

He did nothing of the sort. He ordered those earlier rites to continue (nequaquam auferimus) ... unless, unanimously, Bishop and Chapter should choose to use his Pian edition instead.

Those who claim that recent pontiffs are doing no more than S Pius V did are either misinformed, or untruth-tellers. He prohibited the disuse of rites which had been in place for more than 200 years. Recent Roman documents claim to be able to forbid a rite which has been in place for much more than 200 years.

Even a child should be able to understand the difference ... 

http://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.com/2021/11/archbishop-roche.html

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Correspondence



http://www.lmschairman.org/2021/11/a-response-to-letters-between.html

https://onepeterfive.com/a-letter-from-the-vatican-on-traditionis-custodes/








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