Saturday, February 04, 2006

Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz: "We're in the middle of the disintegration of the Latin rite"

In an article entitled "Bishops Bruskewitz and Corrada expect 1962 missal to play important future role," published online in Renew America (Feb. 1, 2006), Brian Mershon interviews Bishops Bruskewitz and Corrada as a follow-up to the December 1, 2005 issue of The Wanderer, which covered in detail the Una Voce conference held November 18-21 in Providence, R.I. In the November conference, among other things, Bishop Fernando Rifan of the Apostolic Administration of St. John Marie Vianney, Campos, Brazil, said there were four U.S. bishops who allowed their diocesan priests full approval to offer the Classical Roman rite of Mass. In that same conference, Msgr. Michael Schmitz, U.S. provincial superior, Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, who was ordained a priest by Pope Benedict XVI as Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, in 1982, made it clear that the growth of traditional communities in the United States is being recognized in important corridors in the Church. Bishop Rifan specifically cited Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis; Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska; Bishop Thomas Doran of Rockford, Illinois; and Bishop Alvaro Corrada, SJ, of Tyler, Texas, as having been generous in the Ecclesia Dei indult application, as requested and emphasized repeatedly by the late Pope John Paul II.

Bishop Corrada agreed in the Renew America interview to explain why they have been so generous to both their own diocesan priests and laity whose spirituality is centered in frequent access to the Classical Roman rite and sacraments. Among other things, one reads this:
Q. What has influenced your thinking with regard to the sacred liturgy?

Bishop Bruskewitz: I think Msgr. [Klaus] Gamber's books about the reform of the liturgy and what the Holy Father himself has written, as Cardinal Ratzinger, about the liturgy, are extremely important.
Read more here.

[Hat tip to Paul Borealis, whose comment is: "Cardinal Ratzinger strikes again! May Pope Benedict XVI do the same..."]

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