A puzzling occurence. After the link to the Guidelines had been broken around the time of the Tablet report on the PCED letter to Cardinal Rosales, the link has been restored.
You can view the Guidelines once more here.
In the main webpage of the Archdiocese of Manila, with its large section dedicated to liturgical news and events in the Archdiocese, there is no mention of anything related to the Missal of 1962, nothing that indicates that the Archdiocese is about to "actively promote" the Motu Proprio, as the PCED letter has been alleged to command.
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Space ship Rosales to Manila priests: Who wants to be a hospice chaplain for life?
P.K.T.P.
The guidelines were never taken completely out. They have lived in the 2009 homilies section of Cardinal Rosales. The only thing that disappeared was the link from the main page.
You can only google the guidelines, but you cannot find them by navigating in the Archdiocese's website.
Try going to Cardinal Rosales' section, then to the Homilies page, and you will not find the document.
This probably means that based on the publicity received, they took all the links out, but they did not delete the document (let us hope this is just an omission).
Pope is being attacked from all sides. I heard this morning something about Spain. I could not check it yet.
Anonymous 1:
The guidelines did indeed completely disappear late last month. I and some others repeatedly tried to access it around the time of the Tablet report, to no avail.
We're surprised that it's back.
The problem is, where Manila goes, much of the Philippine Church goes. Manila may not be the de jure primatial see of the Philippines, but de facto it is, and wields a lot of influence over the dioceses and archdioceses surrounding it.
In fact, we have a report of one priest who celebrates the TLM in a diocese other than Manila, being sent the Manila guidelines by his prelate.
In fact, we have a report of one priest who celebrates the TLM in a diocese other than Manila, being sent the Manila guidelines by his prelate. This priest should respond by sending a copy of Summorum Pontificum to his ordinary.
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The other shoe dropping, after Linz?
It does not appear to involve at this time much of a cost to defy the Pope, does it?
Until the Holy Father smashes the teeth of a few well-selected rebels, he can confidently expect further rebellion.
As for making things more difficult for Manila or the PCED, I would rather have expected it to have made things more difficult for the Cardinal Archbishop of Manila.
But apparently any actual insistence of the Vatican upon obedience to the decrees of a Pope causes less harm when it is simply ignored.
"it does not appear to involve at this time much of a cost to defy the Pope, does it?" (RickDelano)
very well said.Even John Paul II was less tolerant of overt rebellion against the Successor of Peter.
But Benedict XVI has been developing a Montinian way of tolerating anything from his brothers in the episcopate. Then the same pope is complaining about the episcopal attacks against him ... which is delighting the attackers naturally.
It is also rather easy to make a mockery of a letter signed by cardinal Hoyos who is virtually powerless after the papal letter of March 10.
Moreover PCED had left all sorts of episcopal abuses flourished re the Motu proprio during over a year without moving a finger. The trumpeted "Instruction" of Januray ... 2008 is still in limbos.
Why should cardinal Rosales be deprived of a roaring laughter at Rome in these circumstances ? The Austrian bishops have issued a heretical manifesto without being reprimanded, not a word ! Even Paul VI was more energetic.
John Paul II took some action against an abp Quinn, against a Bp Gaillot, he summoned the terribly disobedient Dutch bishops to a synod in Rome etc.
The reluctance of the pope to use his authority combined with the usual "diplomatic" approach of the secretariate of State administration and you have some sort of impotence and a constant turmoil. Wolves are always attacking ... weak targets, when they do not fear anything. Liberal media and liberal bishops/clergy have attacked the pope in the past months because they know that a French priest can excommunicate the pope publicly without being exposed to any sanction at all.
Alsaticus
Even John Paul II was less tolerant of overt rebellion against the Successor of Peter.You either never lived during the pontificate of JP II or lived in a cave to say that comment.
The Sad State Of The Portuguese Episcopate: http://ttonys-blog.blogspot.com/2009/04/not-just-austria-sad-state-of.html
What better way to show support for the Holy Father than to offer or attend a Traditional Latin Mass?
It may be time already for the Holy Father to crack down on these rebellious cardinals and bishops like the one from Manila.
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