An interview with an official FFI spokesman alleges that a minority wanted to scrap the Traditional Latin Mass, but the spokesman acknowledges that the current restrictions "deprive us of the universal right granted to us in the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum".
The Catholic Herald today reports that the Vatican maintains that Pope Francis has not contradicted Pope Benedict XVI. His Holiness has not, if you close your eyes and tell yourself he has not over and over again, only to remain unconvinced. Apparently, the Church's 'image' has 'improved' at the Vatican under Pope Francis thanks to some cracking publicity emanating from the heart of St Peter's Square and then Rio, though clearly, as we have seen it was not a pleasing WYD for the Most Holy Sacrament of the Beaker. As for the love of honesty, truth, transparency, sincerity, integrity and, frankly, respect for those in the Church's care - which includes Her religious orders, it looks rather like not much has changed since the abuse crisis.
Many people are being rather cleverly deceived into believing that this papacy marks an end to the crisis in the Catholic Church. Others could be forgiven for wondering whether this papacy in fact embodies the whole crisis rather well. Since when did it become so hard for the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church to tell the truth? What's going on?
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