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Many faithful – laity, ordained and consecrated – have expressed to me the profound distress which the Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes has brought them. Those who are attached to the Usus Antiquior (More Ancient Usage) [UA], what Pope Benedict XVI called the Extraordinary Form, of the Roman Rite are deeply disheartened by the severity of the discipline which the Motu Proprio imposes and offended by the language it employs to describe them, their attitudes and their conduct. As a member of the faithful, who also has an intense bond with the UA, I fully share in their sentiments of profound sorrow.

In his first print interview since the release of Pope Francis’ new decree restricting the Traditional Latin Mass, Traditionis Custodes, Bishop Athanasius Schneider has said the document “demeans” a thousand-year-old liturgy of the Roman Rite, commits an “injustice” against Catholics who adhere to it, and creates a “two-class society” in the Church.

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This great and powerful article by Professor Massimo Viglione constitutes one of the most lucid and profound comments on the ominous Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes. In sharing this important intervention, I intend to offer it to the reading and reflection of all the faithful, Catholics and also non-Catholics, so that each one can draw from it prophetic clarity and apostolic courage in the very hard war that we are all called to face, a war whose inevitable outcome will be the triumph of the Bride of Christ over the unleashing of the infernal powers.

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Gerhard Eger: I am very grateful, Dr. Kwasniewski, that you are willing to take the time to answer my questions. What is your overall assessment of the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes?

On July 16, 2021, Pope Francis issued a motu proprio whose title could be a harbinger of hope: Traditionis custodes, “Guardians of Tradition.” Knowing that he is addressing the bishops, one might begin to hope that Tradition will be returned to the Church.

Pope Francis continues to scandalise the laity, faithful priests and the entire secular world (the papacy does enjoy universal jurisdiction after all). His most recent and egregious attack on the traditional Latin Mass in Traditionis Custodes now has many Catholics questioning the dogma of papal infallibility. What is papal infallibility? To what does the protection of infallibility apply? Can a pope speak heresy? All of these questions are now on the lips of a great number of Catholics. This confusion is sadly nothing new, with even Bl. Pius IX acknowledging a lack of understanding shortly after the dogma’s definition:

After issuing a warning on his personal blog on June 12, 2021, Cardinal Zen below reacts to the tone and spirit of Traditionis Custodes:

“Like the Chinese of times past we are living in interesting times. Fidelity to Christ and the unity of the Church remain mightily important. We pray for the Holy Father. I pray in particular as a former Archbishop of Sydney, for Archbishop Fisher and warmly commend his wise words on Traditionis Custodes.” – George Cardinal Pell, 21st July

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CatholicWorldReport | Fr. Stravinskas: We all woke up on Friday, July 16, to yet another example of Papa Bergoglio’s heavy-handedness with the promulgation of his latest motu proprio, Traditionis Custodes, reversing the legislation of his predecessors, St. John Paul II (1984 and 1988) and Benedict XVI (2007), on the use of the Missal of Pope St. Pius V, dubbed the “extraordinary form” of the Roman Rite by Benedict.

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For decades, traditionalists have emphasized two points concerning the relationship of the New Mass to the Traditional Mass. First, the New Mass does not abrogate the Traditional Mass, and second, the New Mass expresses a different lex orandi than the Traditional Mass. The first point was confirmed by Pope Benedict XVI in his 2007 Moto proprio, Summorum Pontificum. The second was just confirmed by Pope Francis in his Moto proprio Traditionis custodes. The New Mass cannot survive these papal acts.

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The Novus Ordo was already dying out at roughly the rate dictated by human mortality tables. But the process of death was rapidly accelerated by Bergoglio’s imposition of the Cult of Covid on top of all the other insults to the Mystical Body since Paul VI launched the process of ecclesial auto-demolition that left him weeping in the Vatican halls over “a veritable invasion of the Church by worldly thinking.” Bergoglio closed Saint Peter’s to the faithful while demanding obedience to the insane commands of civil authorities who, in the space of a few months, ripped the social fabric to pieces with a universal quarantine amounting to a virtual state of martial law throughout Western Europe and most of the rest of the Western world. Churches that were almost empty were now devoid of worshipers; the Mass obligation was suspended for more than a year; donations plummeted; and many of those who were expelled from Novus Ordo parishes by their own pastors are never coming back. The “silent apostasy” lamented by John Paul II in Ecclesia in Europa is now institutionally manifest in even more deserted sanctuaries of the “great renewal” in its post-COVID phase.

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The document is dripping with condescension and heartlessness, designed like a Swiss Army knife to equip bishops with as many ways of inconveniencing or hounding tradition-loving Catholics as possible.

In line with the initiative of my Venerable Predecessor Benedict XVI to invite the bishops to assess the application of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum three years after its publication, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith carried out a detailed consultation of the bishops in 2020. The results have been carefully considered in the light of experience that has matured during these years.

What signs do we see from the new guides? The presence of Pachamama idols at the Vatican? Francis’s gentle treatment of Fr. James Martin and threats to traditional Catholics? The closing of Catholic parishes? Widespread abandonment of the Faith? Are these signs greater than those of the past two thousand years?

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This roguish cycle of government dependence is renewed by each subsequent generation of welfare recipients who teach their children, probably from a multitude of fathers, that they are entitled to the fruits of somebody else’s labor.

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