This is a comment Dr Kwasnieski made on Facebook regarding Fr Jestin's essay:
Very important article up today at Rorate, translated from the French of Fr. Laurent Jestin, ICRSS.
A lot of the interventions of conservatives have been concerned with pastoral regard for traditionalists. Fr. Jestin focuses rather on the foundational issue of TC's radical theological or doctrinal discontinuity.
Jestin brings to the table that Grillo's holds the old liturgy *as such* to be contrary to Vatican II; that is its problem, not merely the allegation that people attending it have viewpoints contrary to Vatican II. One might even argue that Paul VI never went as far as TC: he considered the old rite a symbol of opposition to Vatican II but he never went so far as to say that the old rite contradicts the new doctrine of the Church, the Mass, and the priesthood, which is what Grillo says (as Jestin shows). This is where Pope Francis has recklessly gone with Article 1 of TC.
The battle over TC is not going to be won on the grounds of "pretty please be nice to mommy trad and daddy trad and baby trad." It is going to be won on the grounds that TC expresses a theological error of catastrophic proportions, sufficient to pull down the coherence of Catholicism.
One is reminded of Cardinal Ratzinger's comments that he was in favor of the freedom to continue the use the old rite "from the beginning" because "people were already beginning to talk about making a break with the preconciliar Church" and distinguishing between "a preconciliar and obsolete type of Church and a new and conciliar type of Church." His fear is being realized in an anachronistic way today, as if we're going back in a time machine and the two last pontificates hadn't taken place. Ratzinger also argued that opposition to the old rite originated in the opinion that the Eucharistic doctrine formulated by the Council of Trent was no longer valid.
Anyway... read Fr. Jestin's piece.
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