Traditionis Custodes, Art. 1. The liturgical books promulgated by Saint Paul VI and Saint John Paul II, in conformity with the decrees of Vatican Council II, are the unique expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite.
This is key! All those who have argued strenuously that there is no 'Conciliar Church' or 'NuChurch' have been told that they are wrong. If the Pauline Rite or Novus Ordo Mass is the 'unique lex orandi' of the Latin Church, obviously the Gregorian Rite or Traditional Latin Mass is a completely different lex orandi. The dictionary defines 'unique' as:
Being the only one of its kind; unequalled, unparalleled or unmatched.
It also says,
The comparative and superlative forms uniquer or more unique and uniquest or most unique, as well as the use of unique with modifiers as in fairly unique and very unique, are grammatically proscribed, with the reasoning that either something is unique or it is not.
So, you can't have it both ways. Either, as Benedict said, the two Rites of the Mass are just different expressions of the same lex orandi or as Francis says, they are two entirely different things.
It is a truism that 'lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi' (As you pray, so shall you believe. As you believe, so shall you live.) This certainly seems to have been operative for the past 50+ years, with fewer and fewer Catholics who follow the new lex orandi of the Pauline Rite actually believing in the Dogmas of the Faith (the Real Presence, for example) or following Catholic moral teaching (divorce, abortion, support for same-sex 'marriage').
My conclusion is that those who have said, ever since the Council, that Vatican II introduced a new, non-Catholic religion have been vindicated by the very words of the Pope.
Remember what a very wise man, Robert De Piante once said,
What Catholics once were, we are, If we are wrong, then Catholics through the ages have been wrong.
We are what you once were. We believe what you once believed.
We worship as you once worshipped. If we are wrong now, you were wrong then. If you were right then, we are right now.
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