Quis Custodiet Traditionis Custodes?

Quis Custodiet  Traditionis Custodes?

On July 16, 2021, the Vatican issued a motu proprio on the Latin Mass under the title of Traditionis Custodes which effectively revoked Pope Benedict’s motu proprio Summorum Pontificium, which made the Latin Mass more readily available to the faithful. That story began in 1988 when Pope John Paul II issued his own motu proprio Ecclesia Dei in the wake of the Lefebvrite schism of that same year. Worried that the Lefebvrites would follow the Latin Mass out of the Church, Pope John Paul II made the Tridentine rite available on a limited basis. As part of his efforts to end the Lefebvrite schism, Pope Benedict XVI lifted the excommunications of the four bishops Archbishop Lefebvre consecrated and expanded access to the Tridentine rite, by issuing his own motu proprio. Both Summorum Potificium and Ecclesia Dei were, in Pope Francis’s words, “motivated by the desire to foster the healing of the schism with the movement of Mons. Lefebvre. With the ecclesial intention of restoring the unity of the Church, the Bishops were thus asked to accept with generosity the ‘just aspirations’ of the faithful who requested the use of that Missal.”1

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Abortion Law in Argentina

Abortion Law in Argentina

On October 2018 I wrote an article for CW with the title “A victory in the Culture Wars in Argentina” on the failure of the pro-abortion Jewish death squad to legalize abortion then (I gave a list of more than fifty Jewish pro-abortion leading activists and institutions). In December 2020, the same article could have been published with just a minor change of title, “Defeat in the Culture Wars in Argentina,” and hardly any changes in its content, for the pro-abortion actors, mostly Jewish, and the lobbying operations and the funding and the fallacies on the pro-abortion side as well as the cynicism and ominous clerical silence of most bishops, presumably on the pro-life side, were the same. In 2018 everybody in the prolife camp knew that victory was an absolutely provisional one, for the forces of the culture of death would come back at once with a vengeance, bloodthirsty and heavily financed by the same sponsors as usual. That is exactly what happened. However, despite of it all, things could have been different but for one simple factor: if Pope Francis had spoken urbi et orbi clearly and firmly against the abortion law in his own country of birth, to which he owes his own career, and which, by the way, he has never visited as a Pope. The question still remains: Why did Pope Francis not say a word against the abortion law in Argentina? Why did he not allow any of the bishops in Argentina to say a word against abortion, let alone organize any serious opposition campaign, which, again, with Francis’ intervention would have been utterly unnecessary?

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Sex Abuse, Homosexuality and the Catholic Church

Sex Abuse, Homosexuality and the Catholic Church

Pope John Paul II ignored the rise of the homosexual mafia in the Catholic Church. When Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger became his successor, the problem had become too big to ignore. As Pope Benedict, he tried to rein in the homosexual mafia in the Church: Ratzinger’s resignation tarnished the legacy of Pope John Paul II, who valiantly held the line on sexual morality, and emboldened those cardinals who had been longing since 1978 to make a separate peace with the American empire’s promotion of sexual liberation.

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