I must not forget to post about the flap created by a recent decree from the Congregation for the Religious, with the explciit approval of Pope Francis, prohibiting the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate (FFI) from celebrating the Extraordinary Form of the Mass unless with explicit permission from their bishop - in direct contradiction of Benedict XVI's Summorum Pontificum and its implementing instructions, Universa Ecclesiae. At the same time, the Vatican appointed a progressivist apostolic administrator to take over the leadership of the FFI from its tradition-oriented leaders. This seems to be a replay 50 years later of the immediate post-Vatican II us-against-them triumphalism of the progressivists.
But since the guillotine blade in this case has fallen on some traditionalist necks, no one is really paying attention to this episode except the traditionalist websites and Sandro Magister who calls it 'Francis's first direct contradiction of Benedict XVI', a charge hotly denied by the FFI spokesman who, under new management, claims the FFI deserved to be deprived of the right to say the EF. Like the heads of the Congregation for the Religious who issued the ban and administrative discipline on the FFI, who is he to countermand a papal motu proprio????
As for Pope Francis, was he aware exactly what it was he signed off on? His predecessor's Motu Proprio can only be amended or abrogated by a Motu Proprio from him that will supersede it... Meanwhile I have to look for the appropriate posts that will give the full picture without getting into the weeds..
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 03/08/2014 11:41]