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Francis Fights against “Sterile Traditionalism” - Stone - 06-03-2023
Francis Fights against “Sterile Traditionalism”
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gloria.tv | June 3, 2023
In a message to the May 28 Festa del Voto in Sassari - celebrated since 1943 when a vigil to Our Lady of Grace protected Sassari while other Sardinian cities were bombed - Francis mentions the Mediatrix of all graces which in December 2019 he called "foolishness."
He added his inevitable buzzwords ("pastoral conversion", "spiritual renewal", "synodality") and then threw a tantrum, “Do not give in to the temptation to remain anchored in a nostalgic popular piety that consists only of external rites or omin a sterile traditionalism that is rather the expression of the dead faith of the living.”
For Francis, there is at currently a great danger of "going backwards” that "leads us to think according to the logic: it has always been done this way.”
This was obviously a reference to a rampant Vatican II nostalgia that insists on liturgical forms that have failed for more than half a century.