The Pillar just ran an article this past week about a trad priest being disciplined in Brazil. It sounds like that priest has gone off the reservation a little, but I don’t know enough about it to say either way... but there are pockets where traditionalism is very strong in Latin America. Campos, Brazil still has large numbers of TLM pa…
The Pillar just ran an article this past week about a trad priest being disciplined in Brazil. It sounds like that priest has gone off the reservation a little, but I don’t know enough about it to say either way... but there are pockets where traditionalism is very strong in Latin America. Campos, Brazil still has large numbers of TLM parishes. That diocese is the only place in the world where there is “a personal apostolic administration” specifically for Traditional Catholic. They have their own bishop. I wish I could explain what that term means, but I can’t... I just know they have one there and it’s catered to the TLM. Perhaps @edcondon or @jdflynn can!
And the SSPX has long had strong presence in Latin America.
I think it’s largely a product of we mainly focus on the church in the US and Western Europe. And church in Latin America in particular has its own set of issues and challenges that drown out anything we might hear about liturgy wars.
I think you're on to something. I've long felt that Pope Francis - not being an English speaker - is fighting battles that are an issue in the Spanish speaking Church, rather than in the Anglosphere. But you can't just scale up like that.
Oddly, Pope Francis actually had a very good relationship with the SSPX as Archbishop of Buenos Aires- he helped them gain recognition as a Catholic group from the Argentine Government. He has praised the work of SSPX among the poor in Buenos Aires and by all accounts has a good relationship with Bishop Gallerata (the Argentine bishop consecrated by Lefebvre).
Many have speculated that this is the reason why Pope Francis has been so generous with the SSPX during his pontificate, yet so harsh with Traditionalists in general (and ones in full communion!).
So I don’t really know... like so many things of this pontificate, I’m left puzzled.
The Pillar just ran an article this past week about a trad priest being disciplined in Brazil. It sounds like that priest has gone off the reservation a little, but I don’t know enough about it to say either way... but there are pockets where traditionalism is very strong in Latin America. Campos, Brazil still has large numbers of TLM parishes. That diocese is the only place in the world where there is “a personal apostolic administration” specifically for Traditional Catholic. They have their own bishop. I wish I could explain what that term means, but I can’t... I just know they have one there and it’s catered to the TLM. Perhaps @edcondon or @jdflynn can!
And the SSPX has long had strong presence in Latin America.
I think it’s largely a product of we mainly focus on the church in the US and Western Europe. And church in Latin America in particular has its own set of issues and challenges that drown out anything we might hear about liturgy wars.
I think you're on to something. I've long felt that Pope Francis - not being an English speaker - is fighting battles that are an issue in the Spanish speaking Church, rather than in the Anglosphere. But you can't just scale up like that.
Oddly, Pope Francis actually had a very good relationship with the SSPX as Archbishop of Buenos Aires- he helped them gain recognition as a Catholic group from the Argentine Government. He has praised the work of SSPX among the poor in Buenos Aires and by all accounts has a good relationship with Bishop Gallerata (the Argentine bishop consecrated by Lefebvre).
Many have speculated that this is the reason why Pope Francis has been so generous with the SSPX during his pontificate, yet so harsh with Traditionalists in general (and ones in full communion!).
So I don’t really know... like so many things of this pontificate, I’m left puzzled.