Day's Links - 2016-11-12

I have for the past week or so been wondering whether a Mass offered by Bergoglio is even valid, given he seems to think a protestant ceremony is as valid as a Catholic Mass. It is my understanding that a priest at the very least has to desire what the Church desires for a valid consecration to take place, and it is highly questionable whether Bergoglio actually does.

Then I found this piece by CallMeJorge, informing us that Bergoglio had a Muslim as an altar server in a Mass during which he urged the world to pardon prisoners, saying we are all prisoners even without knowing it, and a lot of other nonsensical stuff. He had a lot of props to make his case, of course, including a woman who has laudably forgiven a man who killed her son.

If the story about this Muslim man being an altar server is true, and if the litany of Islamist sentiment by Bergoglio listed by CallMeJorge is true - and I have no reason to doubt it since he has proved reliable in the past - then I feel more than vindicated by my doubts about Bergoglio's Masses being valid. It is clear that the man simply does not understand what sets a Mass apart from any other ceremony in the world. In the piece, CallMeJorge states that Bergoglio gave a "short sermon on how to read the Bible through the lens of the Koran". If that is true, then surely the man is clearly an apostate, never mind a heretic, which we all know he is anyway.

Rorate Caeli is making too much of a big deal regarding a book featuring a series of interviews done with Bergoglio when he was in Argentina. They call it the end of the reform of the reform, regarding the liturgy. That is  unjustified since Bergoglio's hate for all things Catholic has been well known, and his despise for the Roman Rite has been expressed even after he ascended to the throne, so there is nothing new there. The other bit is that the reform of the reform has been quite dead for a while now, or so it would seem. Many of those involved in it have given up, and the only person who seems to be trying his hand on it is Cardinal Sarah, whose dicastery has been undermined completely by recent Bergoglio appointments.

In other words, while I agree that the reform of the reform is dead, these interviews shed no new light on that whatsoever.