Precisely because of the publication of the Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes, it seems that the time has come to revise this Timeline and expand it with preface and an introductory analysis. For example, it is most remarkable that, regarding the status of the 1962 Missal, there is no mention of the intention with which Pope John XXIII promulgated the Roman Missal in 1962 so shortly before the Council, while a revision was going on and the Preparatory Document on Liturgy proposed a rather undefined reformation of the Roman Missal.
Please find here a number of personal testimonies from individual Dutch lay faithful describing their discovery, experience and understanding the spiritual attractiveness of the Roman Rite in the Extraordinary Form. This forms altogether an attractive anthology or a "Bouquet of Testimonies" showing the "Fruits of the Holy Spirit". We may find among them representatives of all age groups, young people, and families with children as well as converts in all kinds of social and cultural circumstances.
I postulate the hijack of the Council on the first working day of the Council as being the fundamental root cause for the paradoxical outcome and all the resulting problems that we perceive and experience in the Church today. Indeed all other troubling topics of the Council on Doctrinal level, Pastoral Care as well as Church's structure could not exists that way if the Council was not hijacked. ...
This duty of all Cardinals to defend and protect Divine Truth and the sacred Life of the Mystical Body of Christ i.e. the Church, also includes the obligation to defend and protect the Holy Father, even with one's own life. The principal threats of our time against our Holy Father are those of the devil who continuously tries, by false promptings, to substantially change the veracity of our Faith and the sacred Life of the Mystical Body of Christ. ...
Because Creation is by definition good initio, and Our Lord, God of creation founded the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ, both are intrinsically good and do not need to change substantially. Misled by Satan, evil came into the world through the original sin of Adam. This original sin has damaged the 'dignity of human nature', resulting in a wounded and weakened free will of man that has affected the whole of Creation. ...
Open Letter to the diocesan Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops and Auxiliary Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church concerning a statistical analysis of the shortage of priests with regard to the Amazonas Bishop Synod, October 2019. ...
A statistical analysis of the evolution of the clerical and lay populations of the Church since Vatican II.
This study evaluates the phenomenon of the shortage of priests in the Church generally and the Amazon area specifically. This evaluation is based on official church statistics published in the Annuario Pontificae and other reliable sources...