Alejandro Bermudez is putting in a defense of Cardinal Arinze, vis-a-vis the SSPX talks:
"Don't blame Arinze
Some readers have reacted with some frustration when I informed that Arinze was opposed to the idea of giving a universal permission to celebrate the Mass of Pius V.
But don’t blame Arinze, who by the way is a saintly, honest man.First, he is expressing a concern. Liturgical ignorance among Catholics is unfortunately a fact and a consequence of a bad application of the liturgical reform, so the argument of creating greater confusion is a valid concern."
Communion standing up...communion sitting down...communion kneeling...communion in the hand...communion on the tongue...communion host...communion loaf...glass chalice...clay chalice...facing the altar... facing the people ..altar boys..altar girls..altar guys...altar gays...gay mature priest...gay immature priest...dialogue mass...guitar mass...clown mass...kids' mass...teen mass...priest with chasuble...priest without chasuble...priest with amice...priest without amice...priest with stole...priest without stole...
Liturgical ignorance? Wake up! Forty years have passed, and you can hardly get 2 priests to say even SIMILAR masses. Maybe it's time to realize that this new "liturgy" is unworkable, huh?
Take the hundreds of SSPX, FSSP, ICR, Campos' and Traditional diocesan priests, and always get the very same Mass, if you've seen one, you've seen them all. Maybe it's time to give us, "the liturgically educated", a chance... Let us try the experiment of Tradition!
If Arinze wants to experiment, let him go experiment with Ibo sacrifice! *
(*Please, don't blame me, that is the title of his "Thesis": Ibo sacrifice as an introduction to the catechesis of Holy Mass, Pontifical Urbanian University, Rome, 1960)
P.S. There may not be an agreement between Rome and the SSPX, but if so, this will have had nothing to do with Cardinal Arinze's opinions.
