Our friends at the National Catholic Reporter picked up this story from the Catholic News Service. I actually smiled as I read it. Why? you may ask.
This story is an invention, trying to take Cardinal Ouellet's comments (he's pictured above) out of context and make it appear that he is disagreeing with the Holy Father.
When the neo-modernists at the National Catholic Reporter have to INVENT dissent, I'm gladdened. It was not that long ago that they and their ilk had a ready supply of dissenters, none fabricated like this story.
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Quebec cardinal says bishops should decide Tridentine Mass usage
June 19, 2008
By Joseph Sinasac, Catholic News Service
QUEBEC CITY -- Though a Vatican official said Pope Benedict XVI wants all parishes to have a Tridentine Mass, Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet expressed satisfaction with one parish in his archdiocese offering the rite.
"I think the intention of the Holy Father is to allow the practice of the extraordinary rite where there is a need and a request," the cardinal said at a June 18 press conference at the 49th International Eucharistic Congress.
"In our diocese we have one parish. At the moment there is no need for other places. I think this is responding to the need of the population," he said.
Ouellet said it is up to each bishop to determine how to handle the demand for Masses according to the extraordinary form of the Mass.
The cardinal's remarks came after a Vatican official said Pope Benedict would like to see every parish have its own Mass in the Tridentine rite of the 1962 Roman Missal.
Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, president of the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei," which works with separated traditionalist Catholics, made his remarks at a press conference in London June 14, nearly a year after Pope Benedict authorized a wider use of the Tridentine Mass.
Castrillon, who was visiting the Latin Mass Society, a British Catholic group committed to promoting the Tridentine rite, also said the Vatican soon would be writing to every seminary to ask that seminarians be taught how to preside at the Tridentine Mass.
"The Holy Father is not returning to the past; he is taking a treasure from the past to offer it alongside the rich celebration of the new rite," Castrillon said.
When asked by a journalist if the pope wanted to see "many ordinary parishes" making provision for the Tridentine Mass, Castrillon said: "All the parishes. Not many, all the parishes, because this is a gift of God. He (Pope Benedict) offers these riches, and it is very important for new generations to know the past of the church."
Castrillon said parishes could use catechism classes to prepare Catholics to celebrate such Masses every Sunday so they could "appreciate the power of the silence, the power of the sacred way in front of God, the deep theology, to discover how and why the priest represents the person of Christ and to pray with the priest."
In "Summorum Pontificum," published in July 2007, Pope Benedict indicated that Tridentine Masses should be made available in every parish where groups of the faithful desire it and where a priest has been trained to celebrate it. He also said the Mass from the Roman Missal in use since 1970 remains the ordinary form of the Mass, while the celebration of the Tridentine Mass is the extraordinary form. The document did not require all parishes to automatically establish a Tridentine Mass schedule, but it said that where "a group of faithful attached to the previous liturgical tradition exists stably" the pastor should "willingly accede" to their request to make the Mass available.
I appreciate this very "Controversial Article," because Dialogue is very important for mankind to find truth, peace and harmony.
This prelate proves he is no Major Liberal at all! For when it comes to "Extraordinary Form" of the Roman Rite he shows us to no Dignity of his Liberty. Sine eius libertas, sine eius dignitas. Poor Marc Ouellet!
But, I do not doubt that the great Cardinal in Red Cappa Magna will be coming to Canada very soon. For as you may know Dario Castrillon Hoyos, from Medellin, Colombia has a lot of ties to the growing Latino-Colombian population in the Toronto, Montreal, and Quebec City region. Previously, he played the pivotal role of Milk Man-Confessor to none other to the kingpin of Terror Dom Pablo Escobar. The LOS PEPES did what they could, but CASTRILLON-HOYOS simply rebuked him and maybe even invited Pablo to do penance at a Traditional Latin Mass Oratory? Perhaps, Pablo did do that, and even had a conversion? Or may not?
I hope that this Bishop could have a change of heart. Otherwise, I ask him:
"Got Milk?"
Se tenia lece?
For the good old and true to form Latin Gregorian Rite of Mass codified by the Tridentine Council and Pope St. Pius V, and later augmented by Pope Benedict XIV, Pope Leo XII, and Pope Saint Pius X is here to stay; and we must be mediative and cognizant of the great infinite value of God's treasure to us all to perpetuate the continuous sacrifice! That's right, God has given the "Greatest Thing This Side of Heaven" in His Holy Sacrifice of Mass. Kyrie-eleison.
For the Bishop and his priests, I hope they start training up on the Old Latin Mass, and sooner than later. For soon enough, the Latin Mass Community will be knocking at their doors. I am so glad that many scholars, teachers, priests, and lay people have helped the clergy and altar boys to get ready for the Daily 6 o-clock Low Mass. It starts there - the Daily Latin Low Mass. And I am very pleased and happy to share with others, this gem I recently received a Noticia from a friend (who works with Ecclesia Dei):
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Forma Extraordinaria Pro Omnibus
Posted by: Forma Extraordinaria Pro Omnibus | Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 10:35 PM
In one sense, early morning Low Mass best exemplified the intention! Not an opportunity to participate in a 'social' meal sharing gathering, but real prayer. The Holy name, Manchester, has an early NOM, ad orientem at a side altar devoid of accretions, with a good attendance. But yes, priest, server and a few congregation demonstrates the true meaning of The Mass.
Posted by: Sixupman | Saturday, June 21, 2008 at 04:59 AM
Why do you think that this is invented? In fact Cardinal Ouellet's response as Primate of the Church in Canada is quite reasoned.
Posted by: Friar Rick | Monday, June 30, 2008 at 08:35 PM
Fria Rick,
If you read the post you would see that the "dissent" that is being "invented" is on the part of the MEDIA, not the Cardinal.
The media are trying to construe what the cardinal said as somehow being contra the Pope. This is clearly not the case.
Posted by: Loyolalaw98 | Monday, June 30, 2008 at 08:40 PM