Monday, September 19, 2005

Tridentine Mass

Rumour has it that Bendict the XVI is going to issue a universal indult for the Tridentine Mass. (see it here .) A lot of people are very happy about this. They think (hope) this is a sign of an upcoming reconciliation with the SSPX. These people are also deluded enough to think that Archbishop Fellay will be elevated to Cardinal.

My personal opinion, is if the SSPX returns to the fold, Fellay should have to go live in a Carthusian monastery for penance. Why reward the disobediance? I got the idea from Seven Stroy Mountain. When Thomas Merton first visited Gesthemani, he met a priest who had come to be mixed up with a schismatic sect, was elevated to Archbishop, and then saw the error of his ways and returned to the Church. He was sentenced to the Trappist monastery as penance.

I say, if these people are so enamored of the old ways (Pre V-II), then let them be dealt with as they would have been in the old Pre V-II days.