The moto proprio issued as Summorum Pontificum by Pope Benedict XVI, on July 7, 2007, is an important document that permits a greater liberalization of allowing for the major existence and continuing spread of the traditional Latin Mass (all usage will be understood here as meaning the traditional Latin Mass); but, it is only a beginning or, rather, the mere end of the beginning. 

To paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill’s words, it is not “the beginning of the end” regarding the evil consequences of the Second Vatican Council (VC II); it is only “the end of the beginning” of what had been trying viciously and strenuously to destroy the Roman Catholic Church and, in effect, all of Christianity as well, if it were to truly succeed in its malicious intentions (the author of this present article has written earlier supportive pieces detailing, on this website, the accusations involved, etc.)

The Apostolic Letter, with its original text in Latin, pertains to the use of what is known as the sacred Roman liturgy prior to the (supposed) reform, introduced by Pope Paul VI, in the year 1970.  The spirit of Pope St. Gregory the Great is invoked explicitly in this splendid document, besides Pope St. Pius V and the Council of Trent, which was, of course, so extremely different from the spirit of VC II. 

Yet, the document oddly states that the enormously great desire, perceived for the Latin Mass, existed in 1984 only “in some regions...”  in the entire world (which would be, of course, logically disputed by Una Voce International, among other international organizations of worldwide scope and import).  Twelve articles cover this matter, for what is presumed to be only a simple minority concern, one assumes.   This moto proprio’s effective date is stated as: September 14, 2007, Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross.   With it came an explanatory letter and a cognate statement.   So, what happened to the reportedly great “reform” of VC II and its largely disgusting results?

Logically speaking, it will take at least several (or more) generations of time before the entire poison of VC II, which had entered into the very heart of the body of the Church, has been dissipated significantly to allow a full recovery, sometime in the future.   Too many (unfortunately) successful ecclesiastical and related careers were built upon the foundations of the evil edifice of VC II, which was not meant to be a dogmatic council; this is since no new dogmatic teachings were, in fact, introduced by it; it was only, therefore, a merely pastoral council, which must always be both understood and recognized as a fact. 

The pro-VC II clerics and their empowered supporters, many of whom are well intended, will not give up without a great fight; for they positively hate, not just simply or mildly dislike, the entire Latin Mass and, much more importantly, all that it represents.   [The author will not rehash here all the many arguments against VC II that have been superbly presented by many other and more knowledgeable people.]  Pope Benedict XVI, obviously, wished to heal the schism that would fully have become consolidated; this is regarding, in particular, the Society of St. Pius X -- if he had not acted wisely by issuing this major moto proprio to help, one hopes, reunite the traditionalists with the main body of the Church.

Otherwise, a shadow Church would have surely grown up that eventually would come to challenge the existence of the main body as younger and more numerous families would be gathered around the former and not the latter institution.  It would have been equivalent, for instance, to the permanent schism of the Eastern Orthodox Church.  Only sheer, unadulterated idiocy today would claim that a stupid bunch of old fogey, nostalgic types, old farts (or worse names) were really among the vast majority of supposedly ignorant, uneducated, or misinformed Catholics who had a putrid or reactionary taste for the exotic, i. e., the Latin Mass. 

In fact, ever crescive, ever strident, numbers of vigorous young people, longing for Catholic Truth, and with them their growing families, are in the strong and adamant vanguard of this energized movement for traditional worship, for the eternally glorious and momentous sake of the love of Jesus Christ, the Holy Sacraments, and His Holy Church.   Of course, those whose hatred is directed against the Latin Mass would mostly deny these truths as being true.   

Money, especially, and demographics are, nonetheless, the two fundamental keys for deciphering, correctly and cogently, the primary logistical considerations, besides the overt aspirations for the precious encouragement of holiness and Catholic unity.

Is this document then meant to support the essence of the called for “reform of the reform” – by which everything old will be new again?  Is this to be the actual corrective for the many excesses and failures, evils and flaws, of VC II?  This significant enough statement is not really the once hoped-for death knell of VC II nor the wooden stake put into the demonic heart of the 1960s vampire; it is, however, the open and clear acknowledgement that something was definitely and terribly wrong, integrally so, about VC II; and, thus, it critically plants the requisite seeds of true doubt and is, moreover, done officially by the current Pope himself no less.  The much needed delegitimization process of VC II has interestingly begun, though it would not be publicly admitted as such by many prelates, among others. 

What is at work, unfortunately, is the Hegelian dialectic that presents VC II as the presumed thesis, reaction against it as the antithesis and, now, this action causes the assumed synthesis, which is all, nevertheless, a nominalist-inspired fallacy of cognition, of failed ratiocination itself.  The Second Vatican Council may or may not have “inspired” renewal or hope, as often so hopefully alleged; it rather did empirically, obviously, provoke a real sense of schism, for the New Mass, Novus Ordo, as the highest manifestation and symbol of VC II, has acted against unity; this is especially true for so many of the Catholic young people who have come to reject the Novus Ordo long years after the VC II occurrence.

No longer, as the critics of the Latin Mass had falsely charged, can it be said “plausibly” that a bunch of nostalgic oldsters, decrepit seniors, were the main but ever declining minority of adherents of the Latin Mass; now, the declining minority will be the older generation who will cling to the New Mass as their numbers decrease through sheer attrition; this ought to horrify the supporters of VC II and the New Mass who will, nonetheless, rationalize their decline as they had equally rationalized the massive failure of VC II, while Church membership fell off as with other indications of associated problems.

A, perhaps, byzantine strategy might be perceived by which the failed New Mass will be gradually replaced by the Latin Mass, as Christ had cursed the fig tree that did not yield fruit, as the Novus Ordo did not truly lead to the expected renewal, the fruit, of the Church, meaning after 40 terrible years of uselessly wondering if it would somehow or other “succeed.”  As it was with the case of the Arian heresy, it will be the laity who will and must lead the way toward the true renewal by and through the Latin Mass, by the ever growing Latin Mass community throughout the world.  And yet, this Apostolic Letter granting the universal indult is but one highly useful step toward fully reintegrating the Society of St. Pius X, the leading body of tried and true traditionalists for the Faith, back into the totality of Holy Mother Church. 

This will, nevertheless, occur to the horror of the modernists, especially those who interpret VC II and the New Mass in the vile light of the heresy known as Modernism, a variation of fundamental neo-Pelagianism, the denial, in effect, of the results of Original Sin and belief in the supposed perfectibility of Man (a God term).   The modernists and their many willing allies in the hierarchy will not actually accept the valid reasoning of Pope Benedict XVI, though most will claim that they wish to cooperate or have already done so.  There will be a dirty, protracted, and largely covert fight conducted by the enemies of Roman Catholic tradition who will savagely resist to the bitter end, to the beginning of the end.   So be it.   The decision will be in the hands of God, not the modernists.

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