Ed Feser--who is no Traddy--has a message for Fr. Fliss.
Let's begin with Fliss' comments on the Old Rite Mass:
...[The Latin Mass] is allowed for those who have not grown deep enough in faith to accept the Mass approved [after Vatican II].....The hope is that the grace of God will help these people to move past dependence on the old Latin Mass and come into communion with the rest of the Church......
Uh-huh. OK. Now let's hear what Feser--a Los Angeles professor of philosophy--has to say.
... What @ArchCordileone says about the traditional Mass is true also of traditional Catholic philosophy and theology, from the Church Fathers through Aquinas and the other Scholastics down to the great writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Taparalli, Scheeben, Garrigou-Lagrange et al.). Young people are deeply attracted to the intellectual muscle and spiritual depth of this tradition, which, when they are introduced to it, they often judge to be like lost treasure that has been rediscovered. The revival of this tradition too is unstoppable, because the modern alternatives are simply pathetically shallow and intellectually flimsy in comparison....
It's a good bet that Feser had seen the comments from Fliss before he posted his item on X. The message was not disguised at all: "shallow and intellectually flimsy"..........That's not only about the New Rite.
Heh.
By the way, Fliss' claim that "...all [SSPX's] sacramental celebrations are now invalid" is grossly uninformed, although he's merely repeating the poppycock of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. No less than Cdl. Mueller (ex-Doctrine chief) flatly stated that sacramental authority is from Christ, not from some department of the Church. Several other canon-law experts have said the same thing.
Fr. Fliss is a "nepo priest." His uncle is a Bishop. Perhaps the seminary gave Fr Fliss a "courtesy passing" grade. It certainly seems that way, ain'a?
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Old Rite Mass (Latin) = Vocations
Vatican 2 Mass = No Vocations (unless you want more LGBTQ)
++++Same for Theology++++
Old Rite Traditional Theology = Fruitful Catholics with Large families
Vatican 2 Shallow Theology = Contracepting Catholiocs, No families & no Future
Read:
In 20 Years, 91 Monasteries Have Closed in France — None Among Those Whose Office Is Exclusively in Latin
https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/07/in-20-years-91-monasteries-have-closed.html#more
In 2026 alone — a year not yet finished — the Grande-Trappe de Soligny (Orne), the Carmel of Compiègne (Oise), and Notre-Dame du Port du Salut (Mayenne) have all closed.
Sociologist Isabelle Jonveaux has examined Catholic contemplative monasteries and published her findings in La Vie.
Over the past twenty years, nearly a third of monasteries (approximately 30%) have closed. Women's monasteries have been proportionally harder hit: 32% of them have closed, compared to 21% of men's monasteries. And the pace is accelerating: until 2015, there were fewer than four closures per year on average. That figure now stands at around ten per year.
Carmels have seen 40% of their number close in twenty years (34 out of 85). The proportions are similar among the Poor Clares (approximately 40% closure) and the Visitation Sisters (30%). The Trappists are also facing a high rate of closure (36.4%). The Dominicans (8%) and the Benedictines — men and women combined — (18%) are comparatively less affected.
A particularly striking finding of this study is that the crisis has not affected monasteries uniformly.
In 2007, there were 244 French-language monasteries, 36 mixing French and Latin, and 23 monasteries using Latin exclusively. [Rorate Note: this includes those using the new rite, such as Saint Peter and Saint Cecilia in Solesmes.]
* - Among monasteries whose office was conducted in French in 2007, 34% have closed.
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* - That figure falls to 19% for those using both French and Latin.
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* - It drops to 0% for those whose office was exclusively in Latin.
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