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Thus, it was hard for me to pick up what would be Pope Francis’ last encyclical and read it with receptivity. But from the beginning, I felt my heart embracing his words.
It all began last November — the host of my book club on religious works decided we should read Pope Francis’ encyclical on the Sacred Heart, Dilexit Nos, that had just come out. She had learned about it from the Abiding Together podcast and loved what she had heard. Earlier in Pope Francis’ papacy I read several of his encyclicals, and even wrote positively about Laudato Si and Amoris Laetitia, though I never cared for his off-the-cuff statements. I lived and worshipped God in my pocket of the Church that pressed on strongly in the traditions of the Church. And then, with the release of Traditionis Custodesin 2021, I felt a deep rending in my heart.
It felt like the wounds healed over the previous 14 years since Pope Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum — in which he expressed a desire for the new Mass and the traditional Latin Mass (TLM) to mutually enrich each other — were ripped open again. And Traditionis Custodes only brought more heartache to the Church in America as individual bishops implemented the motu proprio.
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It all began last November — the host of my book club on religious works decided we should read Pope Francis’ encyclical on the Sacred Heart, Dilexit Nos, that had just come out. She had learned about it from the Abiding Together podcast and loved what she had heard. Earlier in Pope Francis’ papacy I read several of his encyclicals, and even wrote positively about Laudato Si and Amoris Laetitia, though I never cared for his off-the-cuff statements. I lived and worshipped God in my pocket of the Church that pressed on strongly in the traditions of the Church. And then, with the release of Traditionis Custodesin 2021, I felt a deep rending in my heart.
It felt like the wounds healed over the previous 14 years since Pope Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum — in which he expressed a desire for the new Mass and the traditional Latin Mass (TLM) to mutually enrich each other — were ripped open again. And Traditionis Custodes only brought more heartache to the Church in America as individual bishops implemented the motu proprio.
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How I Made Peace with Pope Francis, Who Restricted the Latin Mass that I Love
COMMENTARY: Thus, it was hard for me to pick up what would be Pope Francis’ last encyclical and read it with receptivity. But from the beginning, I felt my heart embracing his words.
