Francis and the
Collapse
of the
Ecumenical Project
A Grim
Reflection on the Legacy of a Steward
Francis will die —
although we do not wish his death, nor the death of
any man — but it is … withal, the temporal end
of every man, pontiff, or layman, commoner or king.
Reflecting on this as Francis will soon celebrate
his 88th birthday in December of this
year, we are moved to observe
something very simple about his stewardship over the
House that the Lord has entrusted to him.
For
10 years now, Francis has attempted to “renovate” a
House that was not his, but only placed in his care
as a steward. The majestic facades the
incense-imbued silence within dimly lit through the
stained-glass light of a late afternoon, the soaring
spires that proclaimed the great Triumph of the
Cross abroad for all to see ... these
were not his to depredate: they belonged to
God … and to His simple servants who raised them to
His glory through the coppers they gave and through
the rough, calloused, hands that engraved every
niche in stone by dint of a devotion every bit as
indestructible as the tip of the chisel the
stone yielded to.
Some
of these Francis and his bishops simply tore down;
others they emptied by “consolidating” them
with other Catholic parishes who were equally
bleeding parishioners and who sold them to Muslims
whose adherents grew as exponentially as ours
diminished. Some were sold to Hispanic
Evangelical Protestants, others to developers who
gutted them and turned them into trendy
condominiums. And still others are left simply
abandoned and ruined.
This
was part of the “growth” spurred by the
innovations of Vatican II that was supposed to bring
the Church into the World but brought,
instead, the World into the Church.
And
the faithful fled, seeing little difference between
the two.
Renovation
A
far more destructive “renovation” is much closer to
the heart of Francis, however … than the mere
obliteration of what was symbolically holy in the
external presentation of the Church.
And
it concerns the very heart of the Church: its
Mass and its Liturgy.
These were the two greatest impediments to
the holy grail of Vatican II: Ecumenism.
And inextricably bound up with them were the
Sacred Deposit of Faith, and Sacred Tradition.
They had been quietly but indelibly preserved in
Latin despite nearly 70 years of experimentation in
the Vernacular Mass that somehow had promised,
but could not deliver upon, a supposed
“organic evolution” of worship into something
ecumenically acceptable to all men in
all religions.
Perhaps the New Order of the Mass, the
“Novus Ordo” constructed almost exclusively
by two men alone: the Freemason Anabile Bugnini
and Bishop Luca Brandolini could still lend
itself as the vehicle to “a universal worship of
God” under the auspices of Ecumenism: each
religion to its own god to be worshipped as the one,
true god … within Catholicism itself!
….. but not in Judaism, Islam,
Buddhism, or Hinduism, each of whom keep their
respective gods without conflating them with any
other god, especially the formerly Catholic
God. To use Francis’s dismissive term for
Traditional Catholics,“indietrists,” or
backward-ists, are much too caught up in trifles
like logic to enter emotionally into the “spirit”
of Ecumenism where, apparently, the Law of
Non-Contradiction is not admissible … and
contradictory affirmations are compulsory.
In
Francis’s New church, All are Welcome ... Except the
Children ...
Without question … and without surprise … the
New Order of Mass, the Novus Ordo Mass of
Paul VI has proven itself to be extremely versatile
and spontaneously creative, possessing
nothing of that loathsome “ridigity” so detested by
Francis in the “Old Latin Mass.”
We’ve all witnessed this spontaneity, this
tossing off of the shackles of customary ritual
in nearly every Mass; …. so much so, in fact, that
we never quite know what to expect at a Mass the
next town over if a Catholic Church still remains
there.
It
could be a “Charismatic Mass” that could compete
with, or even surpass in excess, any
uninhibited Protestant Revival Meeting. It could be
a “Healing Mass,” or a “Children’s Mass,” or even a
“Liturgical Dance Mass” (pardon me if I shudder). It
may not even be in your language.
So many Masses we now have! …. except
Latin Masses.
“All
are welcome!” in Francis’s new church; all except
Latin rite Catholics ... the unwelcome
step-children of Vatican II, the only children
not allowed to “walk in accompaniment”
with Francis & Friends; a “privilege” reserved to
“other” “kinds of” Catholics, non-Catholics,
and atheists alike.
Francis's own rigid insistence on the
Novus Ordo Mass to the exclusion of any
Mass preceding Vatican II is, in fact, completely
understandable in light of his determination to
fulfill the Ecumenical pledge of Vatican II: not
just the unification of all Christians in spite of
doctrinal, ecclesiological, and confessional
differences, but more ambitiously: the unification
of all believers of all religions and
no religion in some chaotic form of
transcendental reality … perceived only by Francis
and the few.
How
Ecumenism Collapsed in Upon Itself
This
Ecumenical super-reality is meant to encompass so
much, so broadly, and can only be
achieved at so great a logical cost, that the
Ecumenical project itself becomes meaningless.
Ecumenism as the endeavor to bring unity out of
divergence has only — and necessarily — resulted in
affirming the religious differences it
implicitly denied — an implicit denial now
become explicit under Francis! Under Francis as the
most vigorous prosecutor of Vatican II we find that
Ecumenism merely reiterates and affirms the
religious divisions that it sought,
not just to mitigate, but to abolish in the
beginning!
Ecumenism, we find, has collapsed in upon itself!
It has simply ended up restating the problem
… and then declared that the problem itself
was the solution! Everyone,
it turns out, ecumenically — and now “synodally” —
goes his own way to God in
precisely the religion into which he was born!
Or, as Francis succinctly stated recently, “All
religions are [equal] paths to [the same] God.”
It
is much like claiming to achieve an ultimate
synthesis that reconciles all contradictions, but,
oddly, cannot explain how, and so
becomes unintelligible … and therefore worthless.
All
religions, then, are good and acceptable … except
Catholicism. Somehow, by keeping to the way of its
fathers in the Faith from the beginning,
Catholicism alone — among all religions — is
in need of “atonement” before the World: the
Church must implore “forgiveness” from the
World; forgiveness for a host of fictional sins
from the “sin against synodality”, and the “sin
against creation,” to the post-Conciliar grievances
of being “patriarchal,” “oppressive,” “unjust to …
[insert your resentment here]” and engaged in
aggressive religious and social acculturation … as
well as being historically and intolerably logical
and unambiguous.
For
Francis to scornfully dismiss those who are not
persuaded that his ecumenical agendum is the
principal reason behind his growing impatience with
abolishing and outlawing the Latin Mass (although he
disingenuously — really, quite dishonestly —
states that it is to “preserve unity” in the Church)
is a failure in charity to acknowledge real and
legitimate issues among the faithful concerning
the very unity he pretends to seek … while actively
promoting discord within it.
For
Francis to claim that he is trying to preserve unity
through this autocratic move is both shamefully and
manifestly untruthful. That the Latin Mass, together
with the irreproachable theology upon which it has
been articulated, has been so thoroughly, so
forcefully, repudiated by Francis is an indication
of how desperate a measure he is willing to resort
to in order to implement, or better yet, to force,
an increasingly brittle ecumenical paradigm on
clergy and laity alike. Pieces of that ecumenical
puzzle that are not of Bergoglio's making either
will not fit, or refuse to fit, however much force
he applies to them.
A
Happy Failure
It
will be a happy failure that Francis could not, for
all his intrigue and ill-designs, bring to an end
what faithless princes and kings, heretics and
apostates through 20 centuries had been unable to
achieve: the destruction, and the utter removal from
living memory, of the inextinguishable sanctity of
the Latin Mass of all the Ages.
It
will be a sad epitaph for Francis in many ways, and
history will not look kindly upon his persecution of
the faithful in the very house given to them … and
entrusted to him for their safekeeping. It is all
the more sad — not that he failed to keep
them, or even that he refused to keep them —
but that he sought to drive them out. Seeking
to please men, he drove out the children.
It
is a tragedy of great depth. It is also one that
calls for deep, even the most profound prayer;
prayer that must extend to the hand that strikes, as
well as to the stricken.
Listening to Christ, let us remember not so much what has been
done to us, but rather what remains for us to
do. We
must pray for Francis. Christ Himself has commanded
it:
“Love your enemies: do good to them that
hate you: and pray for them that persecute
and calumniate you: That you may be the
children of your Father who is in heaven.”
(St. Mat. 5.44-45)
Geoffrey K. Mondello
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal
October 11, 2024
Feast of the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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On The Imminent Passing of the
Catholic Church
From All Memory
(updated Sunday October 6, 2024)
The
despotic and heretical reign of Pope Francis will end.
It was a papacy unlike any other, for we found in the
Seat of Peter the erstwhile unimaginable ... a heretic.
Not a promoter of the Faith, but a destroyer of the
Faith. A man whose gods were many and whose
scruples were few; who seized the House of the Master
and pretended it was his own, throwing down the walls
that the martyrs built and bled upon; clearing the Altar
for strange new gods. He was ever a grievous wound in the side of the Church, and
like all healthy bodies, the Body of Christ, which is
the Church, developed a hard and ugly response to it.
As a scab that has
been pulled off a wound, leaving it painful and bleeding
once again ... but beginning to heal ... the ill-starred
papacy of Francis, once it has been peeled away from the
unblemished Body, will begin to allow the healing so
desperately needed in a deeply infected body.
But it is almost
equally certain that the return to a state of health will be painfully long. The Church will not
soon recover from the horrific damage inflicted upon it
by Francis. The foreign pathogens and deadly toxins that
he inserted deeply into the body will not go away at
once, or, indeed, anytime soon. His death is not likely
to result in warring factions between cardinals and
bishops in a stark theological divide separating
traditional from progressive prelates; those faithful to
a Church forged in a crucible of 2000 years of suffering
and sanctity … prior to Vatican II, and those who would
cast that crown of thorns and glory into the cesspool of
“modern man,” eager to make a new ecumenical god to
accommodate their new religion.
Would that this
were so! …. that there were clear battle lines drawn
between two clearly distinguishable and mutually
irreconcilable camps!
But it will not be!
Why? Because in his
eleven-year tenure (and counting) Francis has, to use a
political term, “packed” the episcopacy with his own,
hand-picked, men — men of the same radically liberal,
progressive, and often-heretical mindset as Francis. And
it is these men who will elect Francis’s
successor … from among themselves! And we have
learned today, Sunday October 6th that Francis will be
creating 21 new Cardinals in a consistory on December 8,
of this year, 2024 — the 11th consistory that
he has called in his 11 year pontificate! By contrast,
John Paul II called only 9 consistories in 27 years.
Yes, that is
alarming!
To give you some perspective, in 11
years:
Francis appointed
142 of the Cardinals (soon to be 163) and 407 Bishops
-
That is more
than twice the number of bishops in
only 11 years … as John Paul II
appointed during his entire papacy of 27 years
— and 2/3 as many cardinals …
in only 1/3 the span of time.
-
And nearly
three times the number of bishops in
11 years as Benedict XVI — with almost 1.5
times more cardinals than Benedict … in 8
years.
Numbers like these
virtually ensure that Francis’s successor will
keep his distorted vision of a horizontal Church alive; a
Church more deeply invested in, not God-made-man
(Christ) but man-made-god, the creature
...
not the Creator; an “ecclesial forum” structured around
diversity, equity, inclusion, climate, indigeneity,
social justice, environment, aboriginal cultures, mother
earth … in a word, the “World” as we presently know it.
The Church will
recover from the papacy of Francis and his
predecessors, but in all likelihood — apart from Divine intervention
— it will not be within our
lifetime. Nor, perhaps, in the lifetime of our children.
So much, so very much, remains to be undone! So
much more remains to be recovered! And it seems
all too likely that Francis’s
successor may expand the destructive initiatives
that he has already implemented; indeed, he may well
exceed them! All this points to a protracted
recovery — or, within the increasing realm
of probability, accelerated through, not an act,
but a recognition, of de facto schism — on
the part of Francis & Friends.
The 11th Hour
Sobering as it is,
we must come to terms with the reality most likely
confronting us in the very near future: the Catholic
Church as history had known it for 2000 years — as it
had been lived for two millennia by saints, scholars,
sinners, and the simplest of Faith — may soon be
recognizable no more. As a distinct entity
apart from the world, it may effectively cease to
be.
That is a staggering statement ... and except for
Francis, almost impossible to imagine! Yet, so deeply
have things evil leached into the highest echelons of
the Church, infecting every organ of the body itself,
that it is almost equally impossible to imagine its
continuance!
Except … except
for the faithful few … for those who held steadfast to the
One, True, Holy, Catholic Faith whose source and summit
was, and remains, the Latin Mass of the Ages; bearing
all insults and scorn, all the mockery and derision that
we heaped upon them — when we, with the world, went the
way of the innovators beginning with John XXIII — except
for them, the true Faith, would have
been extinguished in a mere generation
(so virulent was and is this evil
within the bosom of the Vatican II Church). Memory of the 2000 year
“pre-Conciliar” Church in all its sanctity and majesty, would have been
... academic at best.
And now it is the
eleventh hour. God gives us the grace to return to our
true Mother, the Holy Catholic Church, and all that she
ever taught and unchangingly teaches; to the Sacraments
so long disparaged, disdained, and dismissed by the
Post-Catholic-Conciliar Church that brought our True
Mother to Her knees, weeping for her children …
Francis will
certainly, one day, be no more. And so will his
successors for a time. But our Holy Mother the Church
remains imperishable … and ever will!
Let us cleave to her all the more closely in these evil
days, whose incensed breath is the vestibule to eternity
... indeed, to Paradise.
Geoffrey K.
Mondello
Editor
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The Holy Catholic Faith
Where is it And Who is Keeping
it?
Has the
Post-Conciliar Church
Lost Custody of the Faith?
All indications are that is has.
The “Dark
Ages” — that disdainful term for the period in history following
the collapse of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D. until the 15th
century (a period correctly described as the Middle
Ages) is understood by the secular world to have
lasted roughly 1000 years, beginning in Florence, Italy.
Within the
post-Conciliar Catholic Church, however, it appears
that the term extends well beyond the 15th century;
indeed, some 500 years beyond it! According to contemporary
Catholic thought articulated within the past five papacies,
the “Dark Ages” really ended in 1965 at the conclusion
of the Second Vatican Council. All the doctrines and teachings
prior to that Council were only imperfectly, deficiently,
and insufficiently articulated or defectively understood.
The 1000
Years of Darkness
Only
the Second Vatican Council finally attained to enlightenment
in the divine economy, and after 1,965 years of suspension,
it alone has provided the final, sufficient, and correct
understanding of God and Church, man and nature. Prior to
that, according to post-Conciliar thought, Catholics had
essentially lived in darkness, specifically the darkness
of the “pre-Conciliar Dark Ages.” It may be said that where
the Rational Enlightenment “saved the world from religion,”
Vatican II saved the Church from Catholicism.
This argument
— that God concealed the “real” truth from us for
either 1500 years on the one hand (concerning Protestants)
or for 2000 years on other (concerning Vatican II) does
not, of course, speak well of God’s munificence, truth,
or goodness — and that it is the very argument to
be brought against Protestants by Catholics, is good to
keep in mind. Why would a good, loving, and truthful God
conceal the real nature of the Church, the Sacraments,
and true worship from us for so long?
Pay No
Attention to What You See!
We are told
so many times that what we see is no indication of what
is real.
It is true
in two venues: the political landscape, which
is really of not much interest to us here except as a paradigm
of our being told that what we perceive to be oppressive,
unjust, and despotic, is really a benevolent government
open to all its constituents. We are simply not socially-enlightened
enough (“woke” enough) to see it, you understand.
The other
venue, of course, is the ecclesiastical landscape,
specifically the Vatican, and more specifically the papacies
of the Vatican II pontiffs and the various Dicasteries under
them. Within this crumbling landscape we are told that all
the dismantling, removal, renovation, and ultimately the
detritus following Vatican II has resulted in a more beautiful,
vibrant, healthy, and faithful Church, with pews filled
at Sunday Masses; a Church brimming with baptisms, confirmations,
marriages, vocations, ordinations … a chrysalis bursting
in a renewal of all things holy and good! We are
simply too “rigid,” too “backward,” not “progressive-enough”
to see it. Because we do not “walk in Accompaniment with
the Spirit,” we are blind … you understand.
From Bergoglio’s dismissive
perspective, “looking back (indietrismo) is useless,”
1
and given Francis’s
insolent treatment of those who worship as our forefathers
did for 200 centuries, they are equally useless as well.
They are impediments to his progressive agenda; to use his
words, they are “imbavagliando,” “gagging” the Church.2
His aggressively
Modernist agenda set in motion by Vatican II, apparently,
is too far advanced for the possibility of retrenching.
It is “useless” to even entertain the possibility of
rapprochement with the Mass of the Ages and the 2000-year
spirituality inseparable from it; a Mass within which we
immediately find sanctity, solemnity, sacrality, holiness,
heavenliness, beauty, spirituality, form, sobriety, chant,
mystery, the choir of angels; in short, all that is egregiously
absent within the bland, mundane, and very worldly
Novus Ordo
“Mass of Paul VI.”
What, Exactly,
are We to Understand by “Keeping — and Having
Kept — the Catholic Faith”?
The notions
of Keeping, and having kept, the Catholic
Faith can only be understood as retaining (keeping), and
having preserved (kept), the one true holy Catholic and
Apostolic Faith that has been kept and
practiced for the 2000 years prior to Vatican II
— even when the practice of that venerable Faith has been
unjustly deprived through ecclesiastical duress.
That unchanging and unchangeable Faith is kept in
the unwavering allegiance to it despite persecution and
even deprivation. It can be physically removed from
us, but it cannot be taken away from us.
Indeed,
why do we keep anything at all? We only keep what
we want and value; what is good and beautiful. Understanding
this, we must ask, is there anything more beautiful this
side of Heaven than the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass?
… than the Faith bequeathed to us by our fathers, by the
Saints, by the Martyrs — the Faith that has generated the
greatest and most brilliant constellation of saints and
martyrs in the history of the Church?
It cannot
be the case that Faith of the Church for the 2000 years
preceding December 8, 1965 (when the Second Vatican
Council was formally concluded) is no longer the Faith of
the Church now — for if the Faith is different
then the Church, which is
the embodiment of that Faith, is different, and if
the Church is different, the Church is no more. This cannot
be. Christ promised that this cannot be.
But it
can be said that the teaching of the Church
is now vastly different from the teaching of the
Church for the 200 centuries prior to John XXIII and his
five successors, and most especially in what are presented
to us as the “Conciliar” documents of Vatican II, documents
that vastly, even essentially, diverge from
centuries of incontestably authoritative Catholic teaching.
So much
so, in fact, that in its latest iteration under the papacy
of Francis, we have begun to ask in earnest, perhaps for
the first time in our lives, “has the post-Conciliar Catholic
Church, or perhaps more accurately, the “Post-Catholic-Conciliar-Church”
— an increasingly different Church that first emerged
from Vatican II and has continued to diverge from
it through every successive papacy until that rupture with
the past has culminated in a Church, together with its hierarchy,
largely lost custody of the Catholic Faith?
Loathsome
Since beginning this article
some days ago, some alarming news has begun to emerge from
credible sources that has necessarily changed the tenor
of this discussion, one which, much to our consternation,
now concerns not simply the nature of the custody
of the Faith vis-à-vis the papacy of Francis and the disaffected
ecclesiastical apparatus in the Vatican under him, but concerning
nothing less than the integrity*
of the Catholic Faith itself. It has come to our attention
that under the direction of Pope Francis, English Cardinal
Arthur Roche, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship,
together with other powerful figures within the Roman Curia
are preparing to completely abolish — for all time
— and with no possibility of reclaiming — what they
perceive as the threat posed by the celebration of the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass in Latin — in other words, The Latin
Mass, TLM, as it has been celebrated for 2000 years
which must yield to the Novus Ordo (New Order)
“Mass of Paul VI” exclusively — a Mass now
barely half a century (54 years) in the making
… and still in the making. In order to accomplish
this with absolute, clinical exactitude, Francis & Friends
have determined to stamp out the Latin Mass as something
loathsome.
Such fear of something holy! As though the Mass of 2000
years can be shackled and plunged into a dungeon of unfathomable
depth, hidden from sight, concealed as a destructive secret,
and made irrecoverable to memory! How can we begin to imagine
such malice in the Church toward those within the
Church; how are we to begin to grasp the Church promulgating
such an evil law and with an iron fist as hateful
as the crushing fist of any petty dictator?
Too Catholic (for Ecumenism)
The Latin Mass, however, must
go: apart from the many contrived and ultimately superficial
reasons for abolishing the Latin Mass, the principal reason
is this: it is an impediment to Ecumenism,
the very corner-stone of Vatican II.
This is the real reason behind the vitriolic,
almost pathological animosity exhibited toward the Latin
Mass by the liberal, Modernist Church of Vatican II and
its principal proponent, Jorge Bergoglio: The Latin Mass
is not amenable to non-Catholics; it is … too Catholic,
it bears within itself the history, the memory, the devotion,
the filial love of two hundred centuries of generations
of Catholics who cleaved to the Faith through persecution
and hardship and for many, to the point of the shedding
of their blood.
Dwindling participation on
the Novus Ordo (Vernacular) Mass, and an alarming
increase in participation in the (Latin) Mass, especially
among young Catholics, appears to be the principal motivation
behind this draconian measure. The belief that Traditional
Catholics will become Vernacular “Paul VI Mass” Catholics
by heavy-handed decree; that they will be forced into this
free-form Mass by Procrustean measures, is nearly delusional.
It will not happen. I do not know what will happen,
but I am confident that this fiction will not occur.
Schism may occur. Were this the case, it would appear
from several informed sources that Francis himself would
be the formal cause of schism, and hence the Schismatic.
This is not a shocking possibility.
Of course,
we must ponder the question on everyone's mind: the fearful
question that wrenches our gut: where do
Traditional Catholics go from here — should the hammer
fall on the Faithful?
Who is To Answer This?
Shall Canon Lawyers decide
this … who are part of the very ecclesiastical apparatus
that is prejudicial against the continued celebration of
the Latin Mass? Even were Canon Lawyers able
to answer this (they are not), it is not theirs to decide,
for:
Ecclesiastical
law derives its formal authority from the supreme
legislator understood as the reigning Roman Pontiff
who, in his person, “possesses the totality of
legislative, executive, and judicial power.”
In other
words, since there is no superior above the pope,
3
Francis is exempt from, and
not subject to, Canon Law
… and will do as he has ever
done: whatever he wills, which, as
a matter of record, has not always, or even often, been
just, or even good.
Francis alone, then — temporally
speaking — will determine where we go from here, and given
his outspoken animosity toward the Latin Mass that preceded
Vatican II for 2000 years, and his even greater contempt
for Traditional Catholics, it appears that he is prepared
to offer us two options only:
1. |
The
First:
Go to the Novus Ordo (New Order)
“Mass of Paul VI” |
2. |
The
Second option is intended to be
optimally coercive:
No Mass at all.
Essentially: “Attend the Novus Ordo
Mass or leave the Church.” |
What crime, we must
ask, have these Catholics committed in continuing
to worship in Latin (until Francis repealed Summorum
Pontificum, three years ago in Traditionis Custodes,
2021) as their Catholic Religion has always worshipped up
to a mere 70 years ago? Is this the crime
that will cause them to be expelled from the Church?
Who is prepared to call
the Tridentine Mass — the worship of God
in Latin — a crime?
This Missal, This Mass
(the Tridentine Mass), promulgated in Quo Primum
(Pope Pius V, 1570):
“Grant[s] to all priests of the Latin
Rite the right to celebrate the Roman Mass [of 1570]
in perpetuity.”4
Whether or not, under the iron
fist and the unbending will of Francis, matters come to
such a destructive, divisive, and unimaginably ignominious
conclusion remains to be seen. Perhaps it is rumor after
all. By all accounts, we will know by mid-July.
Why the Vatican has said
nothing to quash these rumors is a matter of ominous speculation.
Geoffrey K.
Mondello
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal
October 2, 2024 Feast of St. Francis, Confessor, founder
of the Order of Friars Minor
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*
integrity: the quality or state
of being complete, sound, unimpaired or undivided, uncompromised
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/integrity;
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/integrity
1
https://thedialog.org/vatican-news/pope-francis-reminds-u-s-catholics-being-backward-looking-is-useless/
2
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2022/06/14/pope-francis-traditionalist-gag-243151
3 “The First See is judged
by no one” (#1404, The Code of Canon Law of the Catholic
Church, 1983).
4 “We require then that
all men, everywhere, shall embrace and observe the teachings
of the sacred and holy Roman Church, mother and mistress
of other churches; and that at no time in the future should
Mass be sung or recited otherwise than according to the
manner of the missal which we have published,
in any of the churches of the provinces of Christendom,
of Patriarchal, Cathedral, Collegiate or parochial status,
secular and regular belonging to any kind of order, monasteries,
both of men and women, also the military orders, and churches
without cure of souls or chapels, in which conventual Mass
is customarily celebrated or ought to be celebrated according
to the rite of the Roman Church, either aloud with a choir,
or in a low voice.”
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