Hypocrisy of room in the Church for "All, all, all!"

 As Pope Francis said in Lisbon, there is room in the Church for everyone, everyone, everyone! How, then, can we justify closing the Church to the traditional Mass, persecuting the Mass of all time and those who celebrate it, banning it from the very shrines where it has been glorified by the saints, as at Ars, and confining its faithful to "Indian reserves", far from the eyes and hearts of the pastors?

The Parisian faithful, from whom Bishop Aupetit withdrew their Masses before resigning in disgrace, write:

"There's room for everyone in the Church! Everyone, everyone, everyone! This is what the crowd of young people gathered for WYD in Lisbon repeated after the Pope and at his request: "All, all, all!

It was a surprising gathering, at least for the bishops of France. "WYD Lisbon, a divine surprise for the Church in France", was the headline in Valeurs actuelles on 10 August, in an article by Fr Danziec. "Despite the dismaying news of abuses, the loss of momentum in catechesis and the collapse in ordinations, French youth turned out in force". The same observation was made in Le Figaro on 7 August by Jean-Marie Guénois, who also noted that France was surprisingly well represented among the one million young pilgrims.

Sarah Belouezzane, writing in Le Monde on 27 June, took the temperature of these young French Catholics: "Some of the 40,000 French people expected to attend the World Youth Day arrive on Wednesday in Lisbon, where the 37ᵉ edition will be held from 2 August. Among them, a majority defend a traditionalist conception of religion." The leaders of the Church of France were in fact stunned by this survey mentioned by La Croix on 25 May, carried out precisely on a sample of 4,000 young Catholics preparing to go to the WYD in Lisbon: 38%, more than a third of the young French pilgrims in Lisbon, say they appreciate "the Latin Mass".

When I mentioned this survey in a previous appeal, I made the link with the successive surveys carried out by Paix liturgique on all Catholics who still practise and a comfortable majority of whom would like to be able to attend - or also attend - the traditional Mass in their parish. However, in the La Croix survey, these were young Catholics, and even very young Catholics. This gives us a good idea of the mindset of tomorrow's Catholics.

How is the Church "above" reacting to this brutal fact? As it has always done: by ignoring a truth that disturbs it, insofar as sixty years of conciliar reform, conveyed by a liturgy that sanitises the dogmatic force of the lex orandi, have clearly led to failure. A letter from Paix liturgique will look back at the way in which the Latin Mass was treated at this World Youth Day.

In Le Figaro, Jean-Marie Guénois analysed at length Pope François' performance during these days and his iron will, as he submitted, at nearly 87 years of age and while recovering from serious intestinal surgery, to the considerable fatigue of these Portuguese days. Fatigue that was sometimes evident in the Holy Father's face, in his many irritations. Was this the reason (irritation? reading difficulties?) why, during the welcome ceremony, the Pope completely abandoned the pages of a speech carefully prepared by his collaborators to improvise in Spanish on very down-to-earth considerations, as he likes them, and above all to deliver a message of "openness": the Church is open to everyone, "todos, todos, todos! The simplest of messages, effective by its very simplicity, which he had the young people repeat like a mantra.

Open to all, really? Except that Mother Church, revised and corrected by Traditionis custodes, is locked up for the devotees of the traditional liturgy. In Paris, for example, Notre-Dame du Travail, Saint-François-Xavier and Saint-Georges de la Villette are no longer open to them.

Basically, it's the Pope's "programme" that we want to see applied to us: "Dear friends, I'd like to be clear with you who are allergic to lies and empty words: there is room for everyone in the Church, for everyone! There is room for everyone! All together, each in their own language, repeat with me: "All, all, all! "And the young people, particularly the young French people surveyed by La Croix, repeated: "Tous, tous, tous!" The Pope: "You can't hear it yet! "All, all, all! And that's the Church, the Mother of all. There's room for everyone.

"This is the Church, the Mother of us all! May these and other places of worship, where we feel at home, be open to us once again. That's what we're asking for with our Wednesday rosaries at 5pm at Saint-Georges de La Villette and every working day, from Monday to Friday, in front of the offices of the diocesan administration, 10 rue du Cloître-Notre-Dame, from 1pm to 1.30pm, in the midst of the tourists who flock to Notre-Dame and where our pious demonstration is noticed and questioned as never before".

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