Francis man approves Leo XVI, ditto Francis disapprover, cautiously, concerned about Leo's handling the Charlotte liturgy business and banning of Latin etc. by harsh, extremist bishop
Francis’ PR man Austen Ivereigh is tickled pink over the election:
After burying Pope Francis, the cardinals chose another pope from the Americas to follow in his path, proving both that the “change of era” inaugurated by Francis is here to stay and that Latin America would still be a key source for the universal Church
Hold your horses.
Matt C. Abbott, who’s been around the block a few times, is not so sure it’s gonna work out that way:
For the foreseeable future, I plan to focus on the positives of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate. I think other orthodox/traditional Catholics should do the same.
I’m not interested in scrutinizing every single decision or statement he’ll make in the coming weeks and months.
Hey. Fair is fair.
He continues: “Is he Francis 2.0? I don’t think so. Is he another Pope St. Pius X? No. But I’m fine with that.”
As for not being F-2, hardly: “Francis tended to shoot from the hip and seemed to pride himself on creating theological confusion,” which is not Leo.
Nor this:
Pope Francis punished traditional Catholics desiring to remain in communion with Rome ostensibly because of the ill-advised behavior of a minority of traditionalists who reject and constantly rail against the Novus Ordo (vernacular) Mass, Vatican II and the post-Vatican II popes — if they even believe those popes to be legitimate.
No indeed.
Abbott adds, however, that Leo “may have to intervene sooner rather than later in an ugly situation in the Diocese of Charlotte.”
A mess, that Charlotte.
The National Catholic Register has it, as do dozens of other outlets: Charlotte Liturgy Controversy Heats Up After Bishop’s Proposed Ban of Latin, Altar Rails Leaked:
Outcry over proposed norms in the North Carolina diocese is rising to international attention, as it represents the first major liturgical dispute during the reign of Pope Leo XIV.
The bishop in charge announced this sock‘em bust’em approach during the papal interregnum, having been advised to hold off on it by the not-yet pope Leo in a face-to-face two-hour session in Rome a few weeks earlier.
Controversy in a North Carolina diocese has broadened beyond traditional Latin Mass restrictions after it was revealed that the local bishop had also planned to ban the use of Latin, altar rails, and other traditional practices in all diocesan liturgies — a development with implications far beyond the Tar Heel State.
It’s a crucial issue for Leo, you might say, “broadened beyond traditional Latin Mass restrictions,” once it was discovered that the bishop “had also planned to ban the use of Latin,” even in the current mass, and “altar rails, and other traditional practices in all diocesan liturgies,” this after the bishop, in only his first year in office, had been warned — by Leo before he became Leo — to hold off on his drastic plans.