If anything has proved true during Bergoglio's disastrous pontificate, it is that the worse a rumour is the more likely it is to be true. It does not mean that every attempt at perversion works, but we can safely assume that Bergoglio did indeed set up some kind of team to look into devaluing the Novus Ordo Mass even more.
The same goes for rumours about him wanting to get rid of priestly celibacy: He probably wants it badly. It is not likely he will get it, be we can count on him muddying the waters even there.
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s 1983 declaration on freemasonry is still valid. According to this Declaration it is a mortal sin to become a freemason – even pope Francis has not changed this law. This teaching is official and still valid.
There is a series of videos from the 1960s which were brought to my attention. They were presented by Fr. Joseph Dunn and made by a production company called Radharc which he founded. They came to me by way of Fr. John Zuhlsdorf and to him by way of an Irish poster.
Let us remember that cynicism is a sin. When we see someone who seems virtuous we had better give them the benefit of the doubt until or unless we find out more about them, and we are not obliged to seek dirt on them without good cause.
It isn't an emphasis. It is simple non-Christianity. We've been worrying that Pope Francis isn't Catholic. The Bear must wonder if he is even Christian.
I'll agree with one of those interviewed that it is disturbing to hear people speak of ad orientem worship as though it might be harmful, or divisive, while nothing could be more Catholic in both the narrow - as in regards the faith - and the wider - as in universal - aspects of the term.