Pope Prohibits Masses

[cutekitten]

If that ain’t the quintessential 21st-century news story, I don’t know what is

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/et-tu-franciscus-pope-francis-latin-mass-pope-benedict/

Rod says alphabet Masses are okay. I want to know, what if the LGBTQETC Mass is said in Latin?

Comments

[mollari]

As a former Roman Catholic I find it wryly amusing that Pope Francis seems to be doing everything possible to prove to me I made the right decision: he's proving all of my reasons for doubting the Church as an institution were entirely valid. I cannot imagine what it's like for the people who are still in the church and believe in it to deal with him. And the Cardinals ought to be punished in an appropriate fashion for electing a Jesuit! Frankly though I'm not sure what it should be, but given it's a Jesuit, it needs to be very creative and out there.

I know what you mean about the Latin forms having more power! I'm not sure if it's the language or any of the enormous number of other changes Vatican II did to the mass, but the old Latin Mass has an immense spiritual power. I got to experience it once, and if it were possible for me to attend it regularly I strongly suspect I would have become Roman Catholic again.

As for the exorcists, I doubt that anyone would want to use the new rite for the exorcism: when dealing with something as dangerous as demonic possession, you want to use everything you can, and the new rite seems to lack spiritual power, while the old rite is overflowing with it.

With regard to church's long term survival, I think it really depends on the next pope. If the next one keeps the near total ban on the old rite, I think the church will be pretty much dead in a few decades; if not, then I think it'll stick around for a while yet.

[cutekitten]

I’m inclined to agree with you: