These are days of confusion. Our current Holy Father may well indeed be part of that very confusion. I say this for the following reasons: The Pope speaks too often, too much off the cuff, and tends to be imprecise. He speaks in a non-dignified way for a Pope such as his quote: “I have never been a right-winger”. See the interview in America magazine. Or to say: “The Church sometimes has locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules…” Well, what exactly are these small-minded “rules”? The mandatum is a case in point. Liturgical law is clear—only men partake in this ceremony [of washing feet]. The men represent the Apostles. When Francis arbitrarily ignored and violated this liturgical law, he set a very poor example. I can tell you many of us priests who have fought to implement and safeguard this practice were made fools of and the liberals now laugh at us for our insistence on following “small-minded” rules….partial quote of an anonymous Priest, via Mark Mallett
Posted on: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 00:17:46 +0000
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