Cardinal Cupich’s Laughable Version of ‘Dead Men Walking’

Cardinal Blase Cupich denounced “traditionalism” as the “dead faith of the living” in an echo of the Vatican meeting that produced the Latin Mass-suppressing Traditionis Custodes.

The Archbishop of Chicago took aim at the Traditional Latin Mass, codified in 1570 after the Council of Trent, in a Wednesday piece for the Chicago Catholic as the TLM continues to be suppressed around the world due to the dictates of Traditionis Custodes.

Cupich argued that the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy can be “easily read” as a “correction” of liturgical developments made from the seventh to the 18th centuries. According to the cardinal, these Vatican II changes “restor(ed) the liturgy’s original emphasis on active participation by the laity and a noble simplicity.”

“These reforms were a direct response to the centuries of development that erroneously had transformed the Mass from a communal event into a more clerical, complex and dramatic spectacle,” Cupich claimed.

The heterodox cardinal’s allegation that the Mass’ previous centuries of development were “erroneous” is akin to a Protestant view. By claiming the entire Church was worshipping falsely or inappropriately for about 1,300 years, Cupich essentially denies that the Catholic Church remains a divine institution.

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