The author and scholar Janet Smith posted the following story on Facebook before Thanksgiving and said, “This essay states precisely what I think.” The past week has been buzzing with rumors to the effect that Leo XIV has instructed the Dicastery for Divine Worship to issue “extensions” on the TLM whenever bishops ask for them. In this way, as Kevin Tierney explains, he has begun the practical repeal of Traditionis Custodes, however long its actual replacement with a better policy will take. And yet… even if the rumor is true (the nuncio to Great Britain has affirmed it with a classic non-denial), it still means that the fate of the TLM is left entirely to the local bishop; legally the situation remains worse than it did under John Paul II’s 1988 indult. Nothing prevents anti-TLM bishops from continuing to shut it down, as we have seen most recently in Detroit, Charlotte, and Knoxville (to name only the most notorious). Worst of all, the vicious lies and theological errors underlying …
Quote: "To sum up: there’s a lot of “the world” in “the Church” right now, especially in its leadership, which is constantly speaking the language of, and shaking hands with, worldlings who follow the prince of this world. And for that reason, nothing that’s happening should surprise us."