Roche’s Consistory Manifesto: The Liturgical Revolution Still Demands Its Victims
Roche’s Consistory Manifesto: The Liturgical Revolution Still Demands Its Victims
A two page “reflection” that treats the Roman Rite like a disposable draft, Quo Primum like a prop, and Tradition like a slogan
Every few months the postconciliar machine produces another document that pretends to be calm, pastoral, historically informed, even reverent toward “Tradition.” Then the mask slips. The target is always the same. The old Mass must not merely be regulated, not merely “balanced,” not merely “integrated.” It must be starved, shamed, and finally buried.
Cardinal Arthur Roche’s consistory report is that pattern distilled. It is written for cardinals, packaged as a neutral overview, and built around the same three moves the regime has used for decades. First, a selective timeline where “reform” is made to sound like nature itself. Second, a moralized definition of “unity” that treats uniformity as charity. Third, a loyalty test where affection for the Roman Rite is reclassified as an ecclesiological defect.
The result is a manifesto.
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