It’s official now

The AP reports it – must be something to it, then. It’s a story that already has been extensively covered for weeks by Italian secular media and conservative Italian websites:

Pope’s crackdown on order alarms traditionalists

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/12/14/5418242/popes-crackdown-on-order-alarms.html#storylink=cpy

Where we read among other things:

“Francis has called Benedict’s 2007 decree allowing wider use of the Latin Mass “prudent,” but has warned that it risks being exploited on ideological grounds by factions in the church; Francis has made clear his disdain for traditionalist Catholics, saying they are self-absorbed retrogrades who aren’t helping the church’s mission to evangelize.”

“The sanctions (taken by the Vatican -appointed ‘commissioner’ against the Friars of the Immaculate- SC) seem harsh when compared to recent actions taken by the Vatican against other much larger religious orders or groups found to have doctrinal or other problems, such as the Holy See’s crackdown on social justice-minded American nuns or the Vatican’s reform efforts of the disgraced Legion of Christ. In both cases, a papal envoy was named to rewrite constitutions or statutes and oversee reforms, but Volpi’s actions with the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate would appear to go much further.”

On the other hand, those models af reliability, Fr. Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, and a representative of Opus Dei, deny anything unusual is going on at all.

The bottom line: you can’t stick your head in the sand any longer. The direct persecution of Traditionalists has resumed.