PopeWatch: A Thousand Words
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
This new motu proprio is a disaster. The relatively modest retooling of the dreadful 1970s English language Novus Ordo will be rescinded forthwith, and we will likely get a product even more banal and pedestrian than the former translation was, if that’s possible.
This pontificate is in open warfare against all which came before. May the Lord soon grant us the biological solution to this “Peter in Caiphas’ courtyard” pontificate.
Pope Benedict XVI knew who he was as man, as priest and as Pope. Francis does not know who he is as man, as priest and as pope.
Yes, I miss Pope Benedict but he abandoned us.
Missed him since I heard he was going.
Wholly unnecessary, of course. It’s being done because it will be destructive.
We need Pope Benedict to tell us why he really resigned. He owes us that. He owes himself that. He owes God that.
Jesus went off to a quiet place to pray. Everything Pope Benedict XVI wanted to put into place was rejected, the kiss of peace before the Consecration, the Latin Mas, maybe the altar rails.
Yes, I do miss that holy man, of great wisdom, learning and intellect.