{"id":75562,"date":"2021-07-25T10:19:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T14:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=75562"},"modified":"2021-07-25T10:19:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T14:19:53","slug":"anyone-who-reads-this-will-know-the-pope-really-isnt-catholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=75562","title":{"rendered":"Anyone who reads this will know: “The Pope Really Isn’t Catholic!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Top Catholic Leaders Slam Pope For Limits on Latin Mass<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Pope Francis delivers the Sunday Angelus prayer from the window of his study overlooking St. Peter’ Square at the Vatican on July 18, 2021. (Andreas Solaro\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

By John Gizzi
\nNEWSMAX<\/p>\n

Barely a week after Pope Francis issued his controversial order limiting the celebration of the Roman Catholic Church\u2019s traditional Latin Mass, the leader of roughly 1.3 billion Catholics worldwide found himself under strong fire from some of the top officials of his Church.<\/p>\n

Remote to many non-Catholics, the assault on the Latin Mass that was the \u201cnorm\u201d in Catholicism until 51 years ago has become a rallying cause within the world\u2019s largest religion against a Pope increasingly seen as hostile to traditionalists and conservatives within his flock.<\/p>\n

So far, four Cardinals \u2014 the officials second in authority only to the Pope \u2014 have voice their strong disagreement with Francis\u2019s July 19 order known as Traditionis Custodes (Guardians of Tradition) dealing with the celebration of the Catholic Mass.<\/p>\n

Francis\u2019s document essentially stopped and reversed efforts by his predecessors Popes John Paul, II and Benedict XVI to permit greater celebration of the Mass in Latin and with the priest having his back to the worshippers. .<\/p>\n

German Cardinal Gerhard Muller hit this hard, charging that Francis\u2019s goal is \u201cextinction in the long run\u201d of the Mass celebrated by Catholics from the time of the Council of Trent (1545-63) until 1970, when Pope Paul VI oversaw the new Mass in vernacular languages and with the priest facing his congregation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout the slightest empathy,\u201d wrote Muller, formerly Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under Pope Benedict, \u201cone ignores the religious feelings of the [often young] participants in the Masses according to the Missal [of Pope] John XXIII (1962). Instead of appreciating the smell of the sheep, the shepherd here hits them hard with his crook.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cardinal Raymond Burke, past archbishop of St. Louis (Missouri) and LaCrosse (Wisconsin), issued a statement on July 22nd questioning whether the Pope could \u201cjuridically abrogate\u201d the traditional Latin Mass.<\/p>\n

Like Cardinal Muller, Cardinal Burke warned that Traditionis Custodes \u201cplaces restrictions\u201d on the Latin Mass \u201cwhich signal its ultimate elimination.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on to argue that while the Pope has power to defend and promote Catholic doctrine, he does not have the \u201cabsolute power\u201d to end a venue of worship \u201cwhich has been alive in the Church since the time of Pope Gregory the Great and even earlier.”<\/p>\n

For a week, Cardinal Robert Sarah of Guinea, also a past Prefect for the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, has let his feelings be known on the controversy by tweeting pictures of priests saying Mass \u201cad orientam\u201d (facing the same direction as the congregation) and of quotations from Pope Benedict on the value of the Latin Mass.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am an African,\u201d tweeted Sarah, \u201cLet me say clearly, the liturgy is not the place to promote my culture. Rather, it is the place where my culture is baptized, where my culture is taken up into the Divine. The power of silence against the dictatorship of noise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cardinal Francis Arinze, retired archbishop of Nigeria and reportedly a runner-up in the 2005 conclave (election) which elected Benedict as Pope, released a YouTube video in which he takes direct issue with Francis on the Mass.<\/p>\n

\u201cLatin is not the problem,\u201d Arinze declared, \u201cMany people make problems for themselves. So we can say to them, through your fault, through fault, through your most grievous fault\u2014 not through the fault of the ordinary [vernacular] form [of Mass] or extraordinary [Latin] form.\u201d<\/p>\n

John Gizzi is chief political columnist and White House correspondent for Newsmax. For more of his reports<\/strong><\/p>\n

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