@Thors Catholic Hammer You said "
mere liturgical matter." I was quoting you. "First, in issuing the solemn decree, the pope is carrying out the decrees of a dogmatic council. Second, the Mass contains much essential doctrine (remember: lex orandi legem credendi statuit). Third, the Traditional Roman Rite of Mass is not an exceptional rite, but the universal rite of the Church, being the rite of the See of Rome. The pope was simply restating the 16-century Sacred Tradition of the Church in this case."
"By declaring Ex Cathedra that Quo Primum can never be revoked or modified, St. Pius V infallibly defined that Quo Primum is of itself irreformable." --Fr. Paul L. Kramer, B.Ph., S.T.B., M.Div., A Theological Vindication of Roman (Nazareth, India: Apostle Publications, 1997).
"According to the common opinion of Catholic theologians throughout the centuries, any pope who "
wished to overturn the rites of the Church based on Apostolic Tradition would become a schismatic, not to be obeyed". --Francisco Suarez (1548-1617), S.J., "Most Exalted and Pius Doctor," De Charitate, Disputatio XII de Schismate, sectio 1
catholicapologetics.info/…/qprimum.htmI never said the traditional Latin mass was abrogated. I said it was suspended. You are right that it wasn't abrogated, because it can't be. St. Pius V declared it Ex Cathedra. Paul VI forbid it's celebration. The novus ordo is a bastard rite and is not Catholic. Luther's service was more Catholic than the novus ordo. Novus ordo resembles a protestant service. It is not Catholic.
Either way, you can't condemn Francis without condemning the other VII popes. Even Pius XII made some errors. Francis is the evolution of the VII religion. Bendevacantist totally ignore the fact that Benedict is a total modernist.
"Regarding the second goal, shortly after the Council Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger wrote these lines:
'From today’s crisis, a Church will emerge tomorrow that will have lost a great deal. She will be small and …. will have to start from the beginning. She will no longer be able to fill many of the buildings created in her period of great splendor …. Contrary to what has happened until now, she will present herself much more as a community of volunteers ….
As a small community, she will demand much more from the initiative of each of her members, and she will also certainly acknowledge new forms of ministry and raise up proven Christians who have a calling to the priesthood. The normal care of souls will be made by smaller communities, in social groups with some affinity. ….'"
www.traditioninaction.org/bev/048bev2-25-2004.htm