Hilarious Statement From the Archdiocese of Chicago About the Suppression of the Institute of Christ the King

So, the ICKSP chose to shut down their Shrine in Chicago according to the Archdiocese? Talk about typical modernist lying and intellectual dishonesty!

From Fr Z's Blog

ABC7 Chicago has a blurb about the Institute of Christ the King’s Shrine on the South side.  This is hilarious.

“On July 31, the Shrine of Christ the King communicated to the archdiocese that they would stop offering Mass and other sacraments at the Shrine. It was their choice to do so,” the archdiocese said in a statement Wednesday.

I couldn’t find that statement on the website of the Archdiocese.  Maybe one of you can.

Think about this.

The Institute was being forced by Cupich into a situation that Cupich knew was a deal breaker.

The Issue: Cupich told them they had to sign something that admitted that the Novus Ordo is the only expression of the Roman Rite… or else.

OF COURSE no one from the Institute could sign that, and he knew it!   Therefore, it was “their choice” to suspend Masses?  B as in B.  S as in S.

It was Thomas More’s and John Fisher’s choice to have their heads cut off.

It doesn’t make any difference how many times and into what sort of document the claim that the Novus Ordo is the “only expression” of the Roman Rite.  It is patently absurd.  It is false.  Repeating it is tantamount to implementation of The Big Lie technique.

The irony of this is that, according to the statement, I supposed the Institute could now respond in another statement that,

“Since it is, according to the Archdiocese, ‘our choice’ to suspend Masses, we’ve changed our minds.  We will restart the schedule forthwith.”

Hey!  Traditional Catholics are pro-choice after all!

UPDATE:

The Sun Times has more of the hilarious statement from the Archdiocese.  It only makes what the the ABC station reported worse, if anything:

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[A] representative of the archdiocese disputed Blackman, saying the decision to stop the Masses was made by the church.

“They chose to discontinue the Masses and sent the archdiocese a letter [on July 31] stating that they would stop offering Mass and other sacraments at the Shrine,” said Susan Thomas, a spokeswoman for the archdiocese. “They were not denied. We did not ban them. They chose to discontinue altogether.

“The Shrine had the option to continue Latin Mass under the guidelines and decided not to,” Thomas added. “It is a false statement that we have a citywide Latin Mass ban. That’s simply untrue. Latin Mass is offered in the archdiocese.”

Early this year, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich sent instructions to parishes and shrines for the “continuation of the Latin Mass in a manner consistent with the decree of Pope Francis,” Thomas said.

Cupich stated in the instructions, “As of Jan. 25, 2022, all priests, deacons and instituted ministers need to request and receive permission from the Archbishop of Chicago” if they wished to celebrate the Mass in Latin.

The cardinal listed several conditions that need to be met in making such requests, most of them dealing with recent reforms in the church. “Latin Mass continues in the archdiocese under those instructions,” Thomas said.

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This is an example of lying by omission.   An important fact is left out by the Archdiocese’s spox: that the Institute was being forced, in order to stay functioning, to agree to something that the Archbishop knew they could not agree to.   Similarly, St. Thomas More would have taken the Oath of Supremacy depending on the wording.   However, the wording was such that More could not have even a mental reservation about it.  Hence, he had to either lie to himself and to God and sign and thus save his earthly life while committing a mortal sin, or refuse and be imprisoned and killed.    The statement, “Thomas More chose to be beheaded” is the parallel here.