I have news for Prof. Grillo! It is not His Grace of San Francisco who is in schism from the Church. It is he and his modernist cohorts.
From AdVaticanum
By Niwa Limbu
Italian liturgist Andrea Grillo has accused Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of advancing “schismatic arguments” after the American prelate claimed that the Church enjoyed greater unity under Summorum Pontificum than under Traditionis custodesOne of the architects of Traditionis custodes has accused Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco of advancing a “schismatic interpretation of unity” after the American prelate argued that the Church enjoyed greater unity under Pope Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum than under Pope Francis’s restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass.
Andrea Grillo, a professor at the Pontifical Athenaeum of Sant’Anselmo in Rome, made the criticism in a blog post published on 12 October, attacking Archbishop Cordileone’s defence of the 1962 Roman Missal and his call for dialogue with the Society of St Pius X (SSPX).
As previously reported by this publication, in a 45-minute interview published by Tribune Chrétienne, Archbishop Cordileone discussed the traditional liturgy, the relationship between the two forms of the Roman Rite and the consequences of restrictions introduced by Traditionis custodes in 2021. “There was more unity in the Church with Summorum Pontificum than with Traditionis Custodes,” Archbishop Cordileone argued.
Grillo called the statement “irresponsible”, claiming that it revealed a lack of clarity within parts of the Church and the Roman Curia about what he regards as the failure of Summorum Pontificum and the necessity of its being superseded by Traditionis custodes.
The Italian liturgist challenged three principal arguments advanced by the archbishop: that young Catholics increasingly desire the traditional liturgy, that the Church enjoyed greater unity under the arrangements introduced by Benedict XVI, and that dialogue with the SSPX should be central to resolving tensions surrounding the traditional Mass.
On the question of young Catholics, Archbishop Cordileone argued that younger generations were seeking the “immutable values of Catholicism”, rather than further reforms and revolutions. Grillo rejected the suggestion that young people’s interest in the traditional liturgy could be treated as evidence of a broader rejection of liturgical reform.
“The interpretation of young Catholics is a cliché of traditionalist discourse,” he wrote, arguing that a distinction should be made between young Catholics generally and young traditionalists specifically.
He acknowledged that secularisation presented serious challenges and that liturgical reform had sometimes succumbed to a temptation to simplify the relationship between worship and the faithful. However, he argued that difficulties in attracting young people to religious practice predated the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
The more substantial dispute concerned the meaning of ecclesial unity before and after Traditionis custodes, which restricted celebrations of the Traditional Latin Mass and reversed significant elements of the framework established by Benedict XVI.
In his interview, Archbishop Cordileone presented the history of the post-conciliar Church as a succession of four phases: the liturgical conflicts of the decades following the Second Vatican Council, a period of reconciliation under Pope John Paul II, further pacification under Summorum Pontificum in 2007, and a return to conflict following Francis’s 2021 restrictions.
Andrea Grillo accused the archbishop of adopting a historical interpretation associated with Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, the founder of the SSPX, whose resistance to the liturgical reforms became a major source of division within the Church.
Andrea Grillo, a professor at the Pontifical Athenaeum of Sant’Anselmo in Rome, made the criticism in a blog post published on 12 October, attacking Archbishop Cordileone’s defence of the 1962 Roman Missal and his call for dialogue with the Society of St Pius X (SSPX).
As previously reported by this publication, in a 45-minute interview published by Tribune Chrétienne, Archbishop Cordileone discussed the traditional liturgy, the relationship between the two forms of the Roman Rite and the consequences of restrictions introduced by Traditionis custodes in 2021. “There was more unity in the Church with Summorum Pontificum than with Traditionis Custodes,” Archbishop Cordileone argued.
Grillo called the statement “irresponsible”, claiming that it revealed a lack of clarity within parts of the Church and the Roman Curia about what he regards as the failure of Summorum Pontificum and the necessity of its being superseded by Traditionis custodes.
The Italian liturgist challenged three principal arguments advanced by the archbishop: that young Catholics increasingly desire the traditional liturgy, that the Church enjoyed greater unity under the arrangements introduced by Benedict XVI, and that dialogue with the SSPX should be central to resolving tensions surrounding the traditional Mass.
On the question of young Catholics, Archbishop Cordileone argued that younger generations were seeking the “immutable values of Catholicism”, rather than further reforms and revolutions. Grillo rejected the suggestion that young people’s interest in the traditional liturgy could be treated as evidence of a broader rejection of liturgical reform.
“The interpretation of young Catholics is a cliché of traditionalist discourse,” he wrote, arguing that a distinction should be made between young Catholics generally and young traditionalists specifically.
He acknowledged that secularisation presented serious challenges and that liturgical reform had sometimes succumbed to a temptation to simplify the relationship between worship and the faithful. However, he argued that difficulties in attracting young people to religious practice predated the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
The more substantial dispute concerned the meaning of ecclesial unity before and after Traditionis custodes, which restricted celebrations of the Traditional Latin Mass and reversed significant elements of the framework established by Benedict XVI.
In his interview, Archbishop Cordileone presented the history of the post-conciliar Church as a succession of four phases: the liturgical conflicts of the decades following the Second Vatican Council, a period of reconciliation under Pope John Paul II, further pacification under Summorum Pontificum in 2007, and a return to conflict following Francis’s 2021 restrictions.
Andrea Grillo accused the archbishop of adopting a historical interpretation associated with Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, the founder of the SSPX, whose resistance to the liturgical reforms became a major source of division within the Church.
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