The Catholic Monitor

    "Destroy the Mass and you destroy the Church." - Martin Luther Catholic commentator Ann Barnhardt quoted "Quo primum, the great document of Pope SAINT Pius V, issued on 14 July, ARSH 1570" that apparently declared Francis " will incur the wrath of Almighty God and of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul” for his new document: [The Francis Motu Proprio states in] Art. 1. The liturgical books promulgated by Saint Paul VI and Saint John Paul II, in conformity with the decrees of Vatican Council II, are the unique expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite. Well, let’s see. Quo primum, the great document of Pope SAINT Pius V, issued on 14 July, ARSH 1570, said of the Tridentine Rite: “We grant in perpetuity that this Missal is hereafter freely and lawfully to be used, without any scruple of conscience or fear of incurring any penalty or censure… No one whosoever is permitted to alter this notice of Our permission, statute, ordinance, command, precep...

Today, in the Dr. William Briggs website a priest said of Francis's latest attack on the Traditional Latin Mass: Natural Law—which not even the Pope can change or disobey—that the accused has a right to self-defense. No such opportunity has yet been allowed to those whom he deems schismatic. Now some will say that our obedience must be unquestioning and absolute. They might refer to dogma defined by the First Vatican Council, 1870, in the decree “Aeterni Patris”: Wherefore we teach and declare that, by divine ordinance, the Roman Church possesses a pre-eminence of ordinary power over every other Church, and that this jurisdictional power of the Roman Pontiff is both episcopal and immediate. Both clergy and faithful, of whatever rite and dignity, both singly and collectively, are bound to submit to this power by the duty of hierarchical subordination and true obedience, and this not only in matters concerning faith and morals, but also in those which regard the discipl...