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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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