‘He describes traditional forms as a ‘nostalgic illness”
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Vatican
(CANADA FREE PRESS) – n a recent interview with Katholische Sonntags Zeitung of the Diocese of Regensburg (reprinted by Marco Tosatti), Pope Benedict XVI’s biographer Peter Seewald slammed Pope Francis’ description of Benedict XVI as a ‘transitional pope’ and said that Francis throughout his tenure has sought to “break away” from the popes of history to create “chaos.”
“From the very beginning, Bergoglio wanted to break away from the continuity of the popes, to challenge the traditional, to shake things up or simply to cause ‘chaos,’ as he says in the new book by Javier Martinez-Brocal,” Seewald said.
“He describes traditional forms as a ‘nostalgic illness.’ He demonstratively showed who is the master of the house by abolishing Benedict’s liberalized approach to the Old Mass.”
Seewald here speaks of Francis’ abrogation of the universal permission to celebrate the Tridentine Latin Mass. On July 21, 2021, Francis issued his Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes in direct contradiction to Pope Benedict’s 2007 document Summorum Pontificum, which gave priests everywhere permission to say the old Mass.
Benedict’s long-time secretary Archbishop Georg Gänswein revealed that it was “with pain in his heart” that Benedict read Francis’s orders to oppress the Latin Mass.