Monsignor Strickland: "Banning the Latin Mass Would Be an Unjust Law"
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If Francis "forbids" the celebration of the Roman Rite Mass, "many will not be able to obey him," the bishop predicts: "I believe it is an unjust law. People have come to a deeper faith in Jesus Christ and His Church through the Traditional Latin Mass".
For Strickland, the term "schismatic" is not appropriate to describe the faithful of the Mass: "Who is separating from Christ here?" he asks. Technically, the term schism refers to a separation from the Pope, not from Christ.
The bishop adds: "The schism, if it is coming, is coming from those who are trying to kill the tradition of the Church."
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