Dutch Bishop: Does Francis WANT Empty Churches?
In TC 1, Francis claims that the Novus Ordo is the only form ("unique expression") of the Roman Rite but Mutsaerts calls this strange because Francis himself has promoted the missal of the Ordinariate for Former Anglicans which is a part of the Roman Rite. Therefore, Mutsaerts asks whether TC 1 abolishes this missal.
Further, only in 2020, Francis approved a number of new prefaces for the Old Mass, thus confirming that the Old Mass belongs to the Roman Rite.
Mutsaerts concludes that the bishops have to choose between being custodians of the Tradition or obeying Francis and thereby destroying the Tradition. Many bishops have decided to be generous, in violation of TC.
For Mutsaerts it is difficult to understand the reasons for TC which doesn't serve unity. Francis declares war on some of his own faithful while in the same month “praising James Martin's rainbow liturgy to the skies.”
“He wants to get rid of the Mass that has been an expression of the Catholic faith for centuries," Mutsaerts resumes,
"Perhaps he doesn't like large families (‘they don't have to breed like rabbits’), perhaps he's not keen on priestly vocations, or on full churches (which makes the empty rainbow churches look even emptier than they already are....).”
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