Common Sense from Cdl Hoyos

A few money (you'll forgive the expression,) quotes from the President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos, as reported by Inside the Vatican, on the motu proprio:

The Pontiff's letter is clear. It is a decision which comes from the heart and from the mind of a Pope who loves and knows liturgy well. He wishes that the heritage represented by the ancient liturgy be preserved

Benedict XVI has not walked or will walk, in any way or expression, on a path which is different from that indicated by the Council.

I am not aware, in the History of the Church, of any moment in which important decisions have been taken without difficulty. But I strongly hope that they may be coped with and overcome, with the approach suggested by the Pope in his letter.

I wish to clarify, though, that the papal document has not been made for the Lefebvrists, but because the Pope is convinced of the need to underline that there is a continuity in the Tradition, and that in the Church one does not move forward by way of fractures.

The ancient Mass has never been abolished nor forbidden."