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Let me see if I understand the currently running melodrama of Rumor correctly...
Friday, February 18, 2011 at 22:10 Without having read all of the articles and blog posts, of course: a rumor goes around that the rumored transfer of competence for certain marriage cases from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments to the Sacred Roman Rota involves somehow the engrafting of a certain greater zeal for authentic liturgical reform into the former. That is quashed by the Press Office but Pater Lombardi's statement is in certain quarters read to not really, really mean 'restrictive' in any but a Pickwickian sense--and there was never any suggestion really that the motu proprio to do with this business was the 'clarifying', 'implenting' motu proprio promised to follow Summorum Pontificum that we've all been waiting for. Then another rumor circulates that there is a 'clarifying', 'implementing' motu proprio coming, really, this month (or next, or in any event before Easter), and that this motu proprio is going to do all sorts of anti-Summorum Pontificum sorts of nonsense because (not to put too fine a point on it) the poor Holy Father can't resist the machinations of the troglodytes in the Secretariat of State and elsewhere in the Curia. Then the entire orthodox Catholic Internet civilisation, or that part of it that is at all concerned with the sacred rites (some orthodox people just don't understand, alas), is plunged into despair. Pft.
I don't in any way want to minimise the good work of the Messainlatino.it folks but, contrary to certain published testimonials to their Roman connectedness, I have a very definite memory that they have at least once predicted something on the basis of their sources and... it didn't happen. Seriously, while I do have a vague, shadowy recollection to that effect, my real point is that the feasting at the spectacle of Rumor is, even outside Lent, not a very pretty sight; but certainly one writes a letter or two and signs the petition.
Marc
So perhaps the point of the exercise is to sabotage reconciliation with the Lefebvrists?
