It is all one choreography: the velvet glove and the hidden knife. The ancient liturgy is allowed just long enough to reassure the flock that nothing essential has changed, while the machinery that forbids it everywhere else hums quietly in the sacristy.
A Latin Mass for the Cameras, While Leo XIV Says the Old Faith Is Over
A Latin Mass for the Cameras, While Leo XIV Says the Old Faith Is Over
Cardinal Burke says the old Mass again in St. Peter’s, Leo blesses the synodal revolution, and Rome pretends the two are one Church.
It was a sight both glorious and hollow: Cardinal Raymond Burke, flanked by torchbearers, processing half a mile with hundreds of faithful from the Basilica of Sts. Celso and Giuliano to St. Peter’s. Incense rose under Bernini’s bronze clouds as he offered the pontifical Mass of the Ages at the Altar of the Chair: the first time in two years that the Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage was allowed inside the Vatican’s central sanctuary.
The crowd rejoiced. The cameras clicked. And at almost the same hour, Leo XIV was presiding over the “Jubilee of Synodal Teams and Participatory Bodies,” preaching that no one “possesses the whole truth” and that the Church must “walk together.” The juxtaposition was perfect: at one altar, the ancient faith expressed in Latin and silence; at another, the …
Hebrews 13: 8-9
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings".