About that Zagreb item...
Archdiocese of Zagreb forbids
Cardinal Burke to say TLM
oCTOBER 25, 2016
Cardinal Raymond Burke will be in Croatia until Wednesday, Oct. 26, to present his book on the Eucharist that has just appeared in Croatian.
On that day, he is scheduled to deliver the keynote speech at the conference "Tradfest" in Zagreb, the capital, on the subject "The Gospel of Life and a New Evangelization“.
Tradfest describes itself as “an unapologetic festival of traditional and conservative ideas in contrast to so called ‘progressive’ and militant secularist ideas and policies“.
Tomorrow at 5 pm Cardinal Burke was supposed to celebrate the Latin Mass in the small church of St. Martin near the Cathedral of Zagreb, but that scheduled Low Mass has been “cancelled or prohibited“, as the Blog “tomablizanac” reports.
Traditional Catholics in Croatia told Gloria.tv, that the Old Latin Mass was forbidden by the Archdiocese of Zagreb.
Maybe there will be a clarification from the Archdiocese or Cardinal Burke. According to Benedict XVI's Summorum Pontificum, the local bishop has no say over the celebration of the traditional Mass if the faithful who want it can get a priest to celebrate it.
And Cardinal Burke is too seasoned a traveler for his staff to have failed to inform the local Archbishop that he was visiting Zagreb, especially since it was for an event that must have been planned months in advance. Even if the the rule is that any visiting bishop inform the host bishop of his visit (the host bishop apparently having the faculty to allow or disallow the visit).
In 2010 or 2011, Cardinal Schoenborn created an incident when he visited Medjugorje with great fanfare and media coverage, said Mass at the shrine, and met with some of the supposed Marian visionaries, but never informed the local archbishop of his visit. The latter complained publicly about the discourtesy, and Schoenborn - who was visiting the Vatican at the time of the compplaint - was directed by Benedict XVI to write the local bishop an apology. Which he did, in a handwritten note that was faxed then and there to the bishop.
