I read an Italian commentary (here) on a ONEPETERFIVE article puzzling over a seeming auto-cancelation in the motu proprio TC by the reigning pontiff of his own provisions for the development of the Roman Rite through the principle of mutual enrichment of its two forms by offering some additional prefaces for inclusion in the 1962 Missal, as well as the option to celebrate some of the new and popular saints canonized since 1962.
As horrible as it may sound, the noted inconsistency, along with the benevolence which Pope Francis has shown to the FSSPX, granting faculties for the Sacrament of Penance and encouraging bishops to provide the necessary jurisdiction for priests of the Society to officiate at Catholic Weddings, hardly seems consonant with some of the brutish restrictions a few bishops seem to be reading into the motu proprio.
These mixed signals give me hope that some of the dire prophecies about persecution of traditional monastic and contemplative orders and the repression of the Church's Ecclesia Dei Institutes are no more than sabre rattling by the minions and do not reflect the mind of the Holy Father.
May the Holy Father turn again to a more nurturing position in law!
PROPERANTES ADVENTUM DIEI DEI
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