Prolific, much appreciated commentator/blogger Fr. Z. smells a rat.

I don’t know about what’s going on in Africa, S. America, etc. However, it seems to me that this is aimed directly at the prevention of the undesirable rise of traditionally oriented religious institutes. I have a strong sense that just about the only new groups that are being founded are, in fact, tradition leaning.

Sad indeed that there’s such suspicion of traditionalists in the higher ranks of Holy Mother Church. Vatican 2 arguably threw out the baby with the bath in its mauling of Tradition via liturgical “reform,” among other matters. Suspicion of Tradition itself, clearly.

These people mean business. Monkey business.

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Having fun with the new-mass disasters:

Among my many flaws is a deep appreciation for biting sarcasm. A recent post by Damian Thompson at his blog at the Telegraph is a masterpiece of this form of verbal combat:

“It is 40 years ago today since the New Mass of Paul VI was introduced into our parishes, writes Margery Popinstar, editor of The Capsule. We knew at the time that this liturgy was as close to perfection as humanly possible, but little did we guess what an efflorescence of art, architecture, music and worship lay ahead!

There were fears at first that the vernacular service would damage the solemnity of the Mass. How silly! Far from leading to liturgical abuses, the New Mass nurtured a koinonia that revived Catholic culture and packed our reordered churches to the rafters.

So dramatic was the growth in family Mass observance, indeed, that a new…