He gets most of what's wrong with the enriched, billionaire, multi-millionarie backed thugs of the anti-Francis "traditionalists" right, starting with a non-believer reactionary hankering after "Catholic tradition" as presented in some HBO, neo-fascist-integralist wet dream that up till I heard this, I didn't know it existed. As to the non-believer thinking he's got some stake in this, it's because "catholic traditionalism" is a PR arm of the billionaire oligarch's scheme to get control of everything. They hate Francis for the reason's that Hart lists. Some of his more entertaining statements are, roughly.
"They want the Tridentine Mass which, I as an Orthodox think is scarcely better than the Novus Ordo, a 16th century atrocity."
"Unless you've got a full choir performing Palestrina the Tridentine Mass is about as absorbing spiritually, for me, as reading a phone book."
As someone who remembers the pre-Vatican II Tridentine mass, it was about as empty as he heads of these idiots, especially the young JPII BXVI era seminarians and priests. Some of whom aren't exactly young anymore but who don't remember the sterility and mockery of sprituality that the Latin mass was.
"The things that concern them, things like large saturnos or beautiful clerical garb. You know you'd think that Raymond Burke's cross-dressing act was the truth."
This is what these drag-act loving young traditionalists imagine is authentic Christianity.
While I don't especially like Mike Barnicle, he got this right:
dresses like Queen Elizabeth, and talks like someone who majored in misogyny at some bogus, backwoods, Bible-banging tent school.”
Only, if I were Liz, I'd sue for slander. She was never that over-the-top, not at her wedding, not even at her coronation.
I'd go into where a lot of this crap got its big push from the late "Mother Angelica" who I always post-fixed with "that Nazi nun" and her EWTN empire. I hope the U.S. Catholic Conference or even the local bishop would shut that lie machine down for good.
Update: I could have gone with D. B. Hart comparing that style with Carol Channing
or Liberace.
I mean
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