"None of these matters can be resolved by setting a deadline and threatening severe penalties for failure to comply. They take years of painstaking effort. And even then, they often arise again in different forms. "
And yet this was Rome's entire strategy.
The rumored restrictions on the Latin Mass should be read with this entire fiasco in…
"None of these matters can be resolved by setting a deadline and threatening severe penalties for failure to comply. They take years of painstaking effort. And even then, they often arise again in different forms. "
And yet this was Rome's entire strategy.
The rumored restrictions on the Latin Mass should be read with this entire fiasco in mind. Alongside Fiducia supplicans, we're learning the limits of papal power, and how it's one thing to say "do this or you're a schismatic", and quite another to actually follow through on that threat.
It is very difficult to shoot an entire mutinous army. So, when most of the African bishops mutineed on Fiducia Supplicans, the Vatican found that it could accommodate African culture.
"None of these matters can be resolved by setting a deadline and threatening severe penalties for failure to comply. They take years of painstaking effort. And even then, they often arise again in different forms. "
And yet this was Rome's entire strategy.
The rumored restrictions on the Latin Mass should be read with this entire fiasco in mind. Alongside Fiducia supplicans, we're learning the limits of papal power, and how it's one thing to say "do this or you're a schismatic", and quite another to actually follow through on that threat.
I am reminded of the old British Army joke:
If one man retreats, it is called running away.
If a regiment runs away, it is called a retreat.
It is very difficult to shoot an entire mutinous army. So, when most of the African bishops mutineed on Fiducia Supplicans, the Vatican found that it could accommodate African culture.