Anti-Traditional Reaction Continues: Traditionalists Beware!

With the shocking news of the abrupt cancellation of the Paraguay diocese Ciudad del Este's August ordinations (until further notice!), and apparent suspension of the Diocese's Ordinary Bishop Rogelio Livieres Plano, the Holy Father continues his hard line approach toward the Traditional movement in the Church. The great shocker here is the urgency with which this action is taken, without any apparent cause (as in the case of the continued sanctions against the Franciscans of the Immaculate)! It does seem that this is a sort of anti-Summorum Pontificum backlash, promoted by the reigning Pope Himself.

In disciplinary matters the Papacy may err, as the Pontiffs of late have admitted with the public mea culpae.

The question becomes, how to respond to an unjust action of the Holy Father? The Protestant response is heresy. The Orthodox response is schism. The Catholic response is to suffer in silence and obedience, yet without sin (e.g. Mother Angelica, Saint Padre Pio).

The Holy Father has to make decisions for the good of the Church and we need to support his decisions even when we might deem them wrong. The Church is not a democracy. It is an hierarchy! I follow and promote the Catholic Tradition, always under the Papal authority. The buck stops here. A Catholic cannot conduct his business without loyal reference to the Supreme Ecclesiastical Authority. Short of requiring me to sin, I shall be completely subject to the Authority of the Pope!

I might not approve all of the Pope's actions, but I will not oppose Him except in the case of obstinate, grave, manifest sin, as His Code of Canon Law requires of me, or if His decisions should oblige me personally to sin. Thank God there is no case for that here! I can still say my Traditional Mass in peace, under the full authority of the Church universal. Thanks be to God and to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI who made the way clear for that!

If noone ever disagreed with the See of Peter, Paul would never have confronted the Supreme Pontiff with his pro-Jewish anti-Greeek hypocrisy, and civilization would have perhaps never tasted blood sausage or the bacon cheeseburger!

Regarding this action of the Holy Father and of His Cardinal delegate I would say what they say in Spanish: we fire-men shouldn't step on each other's hoses!