Might we traditionalists, who are being singled out by Pope Francis, be recipients of this Beatitude? The answer depends upon the interior dispositions of each one of us, of course — the degree of our cooperation with grace — but the remaining conditions seems to favor it. Bishop Athanasius Schneider summarized the situation when he told Diane Montagna that his “initial impression” of the motu proprio was that “of a shepherd who instead of having the smell of his sheep, is angrily beating them with a stick.” As I argued last week, implicit in Traditionis Custodes is “the terrifying notion that the Roman Church’s own liturgical tradition bears within it the seeds of schism.” That would make those who are faithful to that tradition to be virtual schismatics.
On ‘Traditionis Custodes,’ Keeping Calm, and Carrying on – Catholicism.org
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