What is The Real Threat to The Unity of the Roman Rite? Card Ratzinger's Letter.

[Augstine Baker]

In 1999 then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger answered the objections of an old liberal Roman Liturgist. Now the letter is on the internet!


[kreuz.net] On the 16th of November 1998 the old liberal Liturgist and Claretian, Father Matias Augé (74), wrote a letter to the former Prefect for the Congregation of the Doctrine and the Faith, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.

Father Augé is from Spain. In the late 90s he was a Professor at the Benedictine Liturgical Institute 'Sant'Anselmo' in Rome, on the theological faculty of the Papal Lateran University and advisor to the Vatican Congregation for Liturgy.

In his letter he had criticized a proposal by Cardinal Ratzinger to keep the 10 year anniversary of the Motu Proprio 'Ecclesia Dei' on October 24th 1998.


http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2010...roman.html

[3Sanctus]

Cardinal Ratzinger made it clear that the unity of the Roman Rite is not today "threatened by a small community, who use the Indult [Permission to Celebrate the Old Mass] and are generally treated like they have the plague, as people not understood, if not even possibly doing something immoral."

It's great to know our Holy Father has an understanding of where traditionalists are coming from.  Viva Papa Bene!  :cheers:

[Augstine Baker]

Cardinal Ratzinger made it clear that the unity of the Roman Rite is not today "threatened by a small community, who use the Indult [Permission to Celebrate the Old Mass] and are generally treated like they have the plague, as people not understood, if not even possibly doing something immoral."

It's great to know our Holy Father has an understanding of where traditionalists are coming from.  Viva Papa Bene!   :cheers:

Yeah, that was heartwarming to read that.  It's nice to know that someone up there understands what we're going through and wants to open a door and give us a cool drink of lemonade in the shade.

[INPEFESS]

:)

[salus]

THis priest knew damn well that it was the disaster unleashed by modernism and the Novus Ordo that has sent the church into a tailspin, whats he trying to pull.

[Augstine Baker]

THis priest knew damn well that it was the disaster unleashed by modernism and the Novus Ordo that has sent the church into a tailspin, whats he trying to pull.

Nota Bene: he's from the "Benedictine" San'Anselmo....


Edit: Misspelled Nota...

[3Sanctus]

Nota Bene: he's from the "Benedictine" San'Anselmo....

We already did Nota Bene.  He's the subject of the article after all!

...sorry...couldn't resist... :P :laughing:

[Augstine Baker]

Nota Bene: he's from the "Benedictine" San'Anselmo....

We already did Nota Bene.  He's the subject of the article after all!

...sorry...couldn't resist... :P :laughing:

Good one.

[ResiduumRevertetur]

Nota Bene: he's from the "Benedictine" San'Anselmo....

We already did Nota Bene.  He's the subject of the article after all!

...sorry...couldn't resist... :P :laughing:

:laughing: It took me a minute.

[Gerard]

The real threat to unity is the divisive Council called Vatican II.