Traditionis Custodes: Five years of unnecessary ‘persecution’ and chaos

Per Mariam: Mater Dolorosa is dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows, the Co-Redemptrix. Per Mariam's writers report on the Catholic Church and the Faith, providing news, analysis, apologetics, doctrine and spirituality. VATICAN CITY (PerMariam) — On this day in 2021, Pope Francis reignited the liturgical wars in the Church by issuing Traditionis Custodes (TC), undoing in one fell swoop what many deemed to be one of the most important elements of his predecessor’s papacy. The motu propriothat easily became a defining point in Francis’ papacy was, like many other controversial texts of his reign, issued on a Marian feast – that of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. It bore the striking and controversial statement that “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 lexorandi of the Roman Rite.” Naturally, the more vocal among the team surrounding Pope Francis supported the document through …