'Nighty-night Baby' Tobin thinks that the active persecution of TLMers is the moral equivalent of the 'marginalisation' of favoured groups like homosexuals.
From Fr Z's Blog
From CRUX comes this.
A journalist, not sure which but I have an idea, asked Card. Tobin of Newark:
Tobin was asked about Catholics who feel that their concerns were not reflected in the synod’s preparatory working document, called the Instrumentum laboris, which was drafted based on each of the seven continental assembly documents, specifically those who attend the Traditional Latin Mass and who feel “banished” by restrictions Pope Francis imposed in 2021.
In response, Tobin said “the experience of feeling banished is something that is sadly part of the signs of the times, not only for people who very much love the traditional Mass,” but for other communities too.
TRANSLATION: Lot’s of people feel abandoned. Suck it up.
Then he gave an anecdote about how he had to close parish churches which upset people, but one guy wrote later that, while at the time it was hard, it was the right thing to do.
As if THAT is an answer to the TLM question.
Going on…
“Now, that’s probably, I can see it’s not satisfactory to you,” he said, referring to the journalist who asked the question, but said that for those who prefer to attend the Traditional Latin Mass, “under the conditions of the two motu proprio as well as the decisions of [the Dicastery for] Divine Worship, there are still opportunities for it, but perhaps not what they’ve been accustomed to.” [?!?!? Except where, ya know, there AREN’T.]
“I know that it’s caused a lot of grief among people who have particularly identified with that Mass, but I don’t think they’ve been banished from the Catholic Church,” he said.
In this moment there’s someone I’d like to banish from the Catholic Church. However, I will bring him to my prayers and offer his inadequate and patronizing brush off to my Savior, Christ the High Priest, as a penitential offering, requesting mercy for him and graces.
Those who desire the Traditional Latin Mass are the single most marginalized group in the Church today, pushed to the periphery of Church where they live on the edge, gleaning the grains that are left.
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