http://wdtprs.com/blog/2008/10/benedict-xvis-popular-new-traditionalism/
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... I once interviewed the Patriarch of Antioch, in Damascus. I asked His Beatitude whether he, like the Bishop of Rome, believed he had power radically to alter the liturgy. "Oh yes, we have authority in liturgical matters. And in 1,500 years we did once alter a prayer."
Clearly the idea of virtually inventing a new rite had never entered the Patriarch’s head. (The so-called "Tridentine’’ rite was not invented by the Council of Trent, but was a codification of the Roman rite which dated back many centuries.) The question all along was whether pope and bishops really do have such authority. One distinguished Catholic thinker judged that there was no such sweeping power, that liturgy had its own authority based on immemorial tradition, and that the pope’s authority in liturgy "is at the service of Sacred Tradition." The same thinker even dared to describe the new mass as "no re-animation but devastation… fabricated liturgy… banal-on-the-spot product." The man who wrote those words is now Pope Benedict XVI. The Cardinals elected Ratzinger knowing that these were his convictions. It cannot have been done in a fit of absence of mind.
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Something unexpected seems now to be happening in the Catholic Church. Far from attachment to the old forms dying away, a generation of younger priests and lay Catholics is coming into view that is enthusiastically attached to the Tridentine mass, and to Catholic orthodoxy. In France, one in five of all priests currently being ordained is devoted to the old mass. And this is a committed, determined minority growing up in a virtual wasteland for the French Church. Only five per cent of French Catholics attend mass regularly. In one diocese, the Cathedral attracts seventy worshippers on Sunday, while the chapel of semi-schismatic Society of St Pius X (of Archbishop Lefebvre) attracts seven hundred to a traditional mass. Indeed, it is suggested that an actual majority of church goers on a Sunday in France attend Lefebvrist services. ...
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It is not exaggerated to state that France is a 'virtual wasteland'... we had a meeting of local priests here and some of the comments from these priests were frightening... I believe that there are only 11 priests under the age of 50 in the diocese (including 3 FSSP priests), one priest is responsible for 28 churches, a group of 3 priests are responsible for 42 churches, and some of these priests have over 200 funerals a year! The response of the diocese has been to entrust funerals to a group of 'lay liturgical animators'... so many people will not have the consolation of having a priest... everything points toward a 'lay Church', in which priests are not needed... which, in my opinion, is a dangerous conception, and one that won't make things better... Venite et videte!
that sounds pretty awful.... oremus!!
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