FFI and the Mass:
It’s Not a Choice,
It’s a Conviction
By Louis Tofari
The
Theongoing saga of the unjust and tragic persecution of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate has demonstrated once again what is actually at the root of the post-conciliar liturgical crisis – namely the issue of doctrine in relation to the traditional Roman Mass versus the
Novus Ordo Missae.
Like cream rising to the top of a milk pail, recent news has affirmed initial speculations that the friars and sisters were being treated in a heavyhand fashion because some members were harboring " crypto-lefebvrian and definitely traditionalist drift
" as related
in a letter by Apostolic Commissar – err,
Commissioner
- Fr. Fidenzio Volpi.[1] So just what does this " cryptolefebvrian and definitely traditionalist drift" actually refer to? According to a few reports, a discrete but general agreement with Archbishop Lefebvre's (and thus his priestly society’s) theological stance on the Second Vatican Council as well as the problems of the
Novus Ordo Missae
specifically, whether it conforms with the liturgical axiom of
lex credendi, lex orandi
.[2] In fact, it is safe to presume that this
must
be the case, for what other position could merit being labeled – or blackballed – as "
crypto-lefebvrian"
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FFI and the Mass/
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