Liturgy Talk: Pope Francis And Traditional Liturgy
[ Estimated read time: 6 minutes ] Introducing Conspicuous Maximus and Dubious Contentious, two armchair scholars who love God and the Church. Dubious is a former middle-of-the-road Catholic set ablaze by a reading of the Church Fathers. Conspicuous, a shy and retiring individual, has learned to be more outspoken about his convictions. He recently graduated from the Institute for Recovering Catholics Who Are Suspicious of Heretics (IRCWASH). Today's topic: Pope Francis and Traditional Liturgy Conspicuous Maximus: Is it true the Vicar of Christ has a bit of a hate on for traditional liturgy? Dubious Contentious: It seems so, at least to those who are close to the older Latin Mass. The public record tends to confirm his antipathy toward the older Mass and/or its proponents. CM: Exempli gratia? DC: Well, he issued a formal inhibition in the form of a motu proprio called Traditionis custodes , that restricts the celebration of the Tridentine Mass of the Roman Rite, i.e., the extraordi...