Editor: Something for everyone.
(kreuz.net) The Old Liberal Front in the German -- the theoflunkies, journalists and Bishops -- rebel against the new Instruction 'Universae Ecclesiae'.
That is the result of the first reaction to the document.
The German Bishops' Conference published only a brief press release on the publication of the new document.
The current Counsel of the Bishop's Conference will "advise" on the Instruction of the next meeting in June -- completely unnecessarily.
Accordingly, the original Guidelines of 2007 have "only been slightly altered".
The Nattering Bishops
The statement of the Bishops Conference attempted to downplay the importance of the Mass of All Times:
"In Germany there are 128 locations which celebrate the Mass at irregular intervals.
For that reason they are not organized in communities.
In comparison to which: In Germany there are 11,300 Parish Communities."
That these parish Communities are, in comparison to Old Rite Communities, massively over aged and spiritual dead is not discussed.
The Novus Ordo Eucharistic Celebration Expresses a Theological Break.
The speaker of the "Workers Community of Catholic Liturgists", the layman Benedict Kranemann, also criticized the Instruction.
Kranemann teaches in Erfurt.
He lamented that the Instruction had not taken into account the Critique of the German Bishop's Conference and the German State-theoflunkies.
There is a danger that "tensions within the Church will be intensified".
Kranemann asks, how "two different forms of religious services could stand for the same theology?"
This -- justifiable -- objection had been made also by Italian Liturgists.
In any case: The Sedevacantists are Discussed
The chief editor of the German 'Catholic News Agency', Ludwig Ring-Eifel, maintains, that the Instruction has "validated decisively the Traditionalist Faithful" in almost all points of argument.
The Instruction "has made an enormous entrance with the inhabitants of this stream near the Bishops" -- wrote Ring-Eifel almost as precisely careful as the Instruction itself.
In reality the Instruction forbids the Bishops to offer the ordination in the Old Rite in their Diocese.
Finally, Ring-Eifel commented on a "sharp" cut off of "tradionalist fanatics, who go so far as to declare the New Mass as invalid."
He mentioned the Sedevacantist position, in order to insinuate the Society of St. Pius X:
"The adherents of the Society of St. Pius X, which is at present in discussions over dogmatic conflicts with Rome, must decide where they stand."
Society of St. Pius X Praises Instruction
The German district superior of the Society of St. Pius X, Father Franz Schmidberger, boisterously praised the Instruction to the German 'Catholic News Agency'.
The Pope has placed a necessary bar on the arbitrary sidetracking of the Motu Propio by many Bishops.
The Cleric was especially pleased that the Instruction has promoted better Latin instruction.
Fr. Schmidberger sees a "serious Will" of the Vatican, 'to protect holiness of the Liturgy".
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