Lifesite has the complete letter here. Well worth reading. The right to the Mass is inviolable. The right is guaranteed by immemorial custom, as well as by the positive legal pronouncements of more than one pope.
The Archbishop’s words concerning the Institute itself are well-meant and his call to using these trials to declare the inseparable link between the real Mass and the real Faith is a great admonition.
Yet he refers to the Institute as having had a certain “carefree acceptance” of Vatican II that led them to think that the regime would look the other way on “buckles and capes”. This is a bit of a slight, and off the mark from the Institute I know. The Institute’s view on Vatican II is the same as other traditional groups: it’s a Council that defined nothing and thus did not invoke the extraordinary magisterium. The doctrines and formulae of the Council are thus only part of the ordinary and universal magisterium of the Church when they teach what the Church has always taught. Where they don’t, they are not magisterial. That’s it. The SSPX would say it the same, I think. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.
That the Council has been a major disaster in nearly every way is a fact undeniable to any faithful and thinking Catholic. This isn’t rocket science.
Everything the Institute does, from teaching, service, vestments, customs etc., are directed towards the best worship of God of which we are capable in line with the liturgy handed down over centuries. Not because it is old, but because it is so very good. They exist to celebrate the timeless Mass. In other words, they seek to extend the reign of Christ the King Sovereign Priest in every sphere of life. Truth. Charity. The Sacred Liturgy. All in the service of Christ’s Mystical Body, the Church.
With all due respect to the great Archbishop, it ain’t about buckles and capes. And if there is any “carefree acceptance “ that has led to trouble, it’s the unexamined putative papal abdication in 2013.
When will that be examined, I wonder?
Saint Louis Catholic 
Well said, especially that last part. I’d say the SSPX would go a step further on Vat. II: It is simply not good enough to simply ignore the errors, pick and choose what adheres to truth and what doesn’t… that is protestantism. The errors need to be expunged.
Archbishop Vigano has said it needs to be “forgotten” but, with respect to His Excellency, I don’t think that’s quite good enough.
The whole mess needs to be tossed, every syllable, most especially the franken-liturgy. Whatever good and truth the documents contain are not new but already exist in Church teaching so nothing would be lost.
And rather than simply forget it all as His Excellency said, it needs to be abrogated in it’s entirety. And for the edification of the faithful it’s errors need to be explicitly delineated and anathematized with a specificity that used to be standard in Church documents.
The world is a mess because the Church is a mess. No way the world gets straightened out until the Church does.
Ditto.
I wonder II as in Vatican II. Stick a fork in it. It’s done until God wills to intervene.—I attended the farewell Mass at the St. Louis Cathedral in 2008 for then Archbishop Raymond Burke. I was privy to a supernatural event supporting the good archbishop. This was the only such event in my over seventy-five plus years.
So, what was the “supernatural event” ?
I completely agree with everything you say here.
Vatican II was not just well intentioned, but gone awry. It was the very mechanism through which revolution entered into the Holy of Holies, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and everything else that flows from it.
Which is why it is so preeminently important for those who see the RCC as the “Vatican II Church” to dispose of the Mass of St. Pius V, the Mass of Trent, the TLM as a hindering relic. It is anathema to the soul of what they intend. That’s not just me saying it. Those are the words of the antipope himself in TC. As far as I’m concerned, TC is the parallel church’s doom. By their own words, they render NuMass disconnected and antithetical to the Dogmatic Mass of Ages.
The “unexamined Papal abdication” (as you put it) is the full flower of everything that is wrong with Vatican II, it’s Constitutions, and the penumbra of “spirits” that seem to guide its effects – altered Mass, altered Papacy, altered morals, Sacraments, Ordination rubrics.
A fundamentally altered Papacy – at the consummation of the revolution. Almost a decade later, and many “Trads” still unite with the revolution to defend it. Perhaps that tide is turning, and perhaps the tide turned, counterintuitively, with TC and its attack on The Holy Sacrifice.
I suggest we all start to call it what it really was: Vatican Coup!
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The Vatican won’t regularize the Society because it still maintains its position that VII and the Novus Ordo contain doctrinal errors to be publicly rejected. The Institute, FSSP have taken a different position, at the organizational level, accepting fully as legitimate the Council and liturgical reform, as the new motu Proprio more forcefully than ever commands. I pray the Institute in Chicago will resist Cupich and keep saying public TLMs, IF illegally suppressed. In imitation of the saintly Archbishop Lefebvre.
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