Cardinal Pell: The old Mass is essential part of our patrimony.
Interview with George Cardinal Pell, Member of the Council of Cardinals and Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy
Gloria.tv: Your Eminence, participants in the last Synod of Bishops have questioned Catholic moral doctrine. Has this fact alone not done damage to the Church?
I think it's a mixed blessing. These tensions exist. There are people who have mistaken ideas - in the parishes, in the communities. And I think it is the idea of the Holy Father that it is better for these things to come out and to be confronted - rather than for us to pretend that they don't exist. They do exist and there was vigorous discussion at the first Synod. The great majority of the fathers of the Synod were following the Tradition.
In periods of the greatest expansion of the Church after the first Christian emperor Constantine, there was an enormous amount of public bitterness and discussion and differences. And the Church prospered. So …More