Cyrania de Bergerac

Reuters:

First lines of the article.

NY Times:

DW.com

Also, I couldn't find any articles with statements about his motive. I'm pretty sure Middle-easterners aren't immune to being a) non-Muslim, or b) killing other people for reasons completely unconnected with their cultural background.

Heck, the PBS article says police were still questioning him to see if he was high.

So a few points to put out for people on the SSPX side of things:

The Holy See warned the SSPX back in February that this would happen if they continued on with their plans. There was no "Pope Leo refused to talk to us or say anything" like I've been seeing SSPX sympathizers saying. They were warned that they actions would cause schism months before Pope Leo sent the personal letter. Don't be fooled.

As well, it has been against Catholic teaching since at LEAST 1983. It appears to also have been part of the 1917 code, lest anyone say that the SSPX don't follow the current Code of Canon law, as promulgated by the Catholic Church. It reads: Can. 1387— Both the Bishop who, without a pontifical mandate, consecrates a person a Bishop, and the one who receives the consecration from him, incur a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See.

(Taken directly from the Vatican website which has the Code on it.)

As a bit of anecdotal evidence as well, it isn't like the translations for the Novus Ordo where pulled out of a hate. Theologians and priests worked for several years on it. I happen to have a child's missal from my grandmother, based on the date of publication for the Missal (it was only in print for a year or two, around the time she would have received her First Communion) and on her name on the inside cover being her maiden name (she got married at 18 or 19 in 1955), I know roughly when she got it (probably in 1948, when it was newly published, the copyright is from 1947). The Missal doesn't include any Latin in it, and the prayers which it has for the Mass, the explanations for it, are nearly identical to my English Daily Missal. It's after-Mass prayers which are included are the same ones that my Novus Ordo parish does. The order of the Mass in the midsal is identical to that of the Novus Ordo. Other than the language being old-fashioned for the descriptions, and the book being close to falling apart, I could use it for my own children at a Novus Ordo Mass. And it was published in the 1940s, well enough before Vatican II. Obviously this is anecdotal, but I think it points to the real and obvious problem that SSPX and other so-called Traditionalists have in their thinking, is that the Novus Ordo, done according to what the GIRM and Canon Law actually says, is NOT some heinous act against God. I live in an area that's highly populated (or used to be) by Catholics. I've seen plenty of parishes with poor catechisis, but it's not the average parish - nor even the Vatican of all places - which are making Offenses to the Sacrifice of the Mass the way they say is being done. And it's not so vastly different from the Tridentine Mass as they like to claim either.

Someone else said in a reblog that I think is worth mentioning as well, that the SSPX wants to claim they are a religious order - except religious orders DON'T ordain their own bishops. They don't even technically ordain their own priests. When a man is becoming a decon or priest and is part of a religious order, the bishop presiding is often also part of that order, HOWEVER, the religious order still has to ask the local bishop for permission to do so, and the visiting bishop acts, not on behalf of the Order or as himself, but on behalf of the local bishop. When the brothers are making their promised, either for the deaconate or priesthood, they promise their fealty not to their brother-bishop, but to the bishop that they are serving under. It is similar for the bishopric. When a member of any other religious order becomes a bishop, it is the decision of someone outside the Order. There is absolutely ZERO precedence for a religious order just deciding to ordain their own bishops. As well, the Vatican has jurisdiction over every religious order, and has for quite some time. The Vatican makes the rules about what rules certain types of groups have to follow, like whether or not habits are certain lengths, if they must be worn or are optional, etc etc. This isn't an over-step for the Vatican to say "you can't ordain your own bishops, that's never been how this works".

Hey, everyone. I know this is a very different kind of post, but my friend Morgan's little brother David is missing. If you're in the Austin, TX area, please keep an eye out. As far as I know, Morgan's not on Tumblr, so if you happen to have any information, please message me here and I'll be sure to pass it along to her and the family. Obviously shares are greatly appreciated. Thanks so much for your time. Talk to you again soon.

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Reuters:

First lines of the article.

NY Times:

DW.com

Also, I couldn't find any articles with statements about his motive. I'm pretty sure Middle-easterners aren't immune to being a) non-Muslim, or b) killing other people for reasons completely unconnected with their cultural background.

Heck, the PBS article says police were still questioning him to see if he was high.