Wizard of Vatican Press Office Attempts Damage Control on Traditionis Custodes

“If you could only see the other stuff that we won’t show you, then you would know how the leaked stuff that we wouldn’t show was not the whole story.”

In what can only be described as a panicked attempt to spin away the truth, the Vatican’s press office has stepped forward to address the leak of internal documents that challenge the entire justification behind Traditionis Custodes. But instead of transparency, we got Matteo Bruni, the Holy See’s top gaslighter spokesman, claiming that the documents are “very partial and incomplete,” a phrase that might as well be engraved on every postconciliar policy since 1965.

As one X poster sarcastically quipped:

This is the level of logic we’ve been handed. Trust us, just not the documents. Trust the pope, but ignore what he said in 2021. Trust the process, just don’t ask for receipts.

The Lie That Launched Traditionis Custodes

Recall the narrative Francis gave us when he published Traditionis Custodes in 2021. According to his letter, the bishops of the world had spoken with “clarity” and “unity” about the need to curtail the traditional Latin Mass. He claimed that their responses “preoccupy and sadden me” and therefore persuaded him “of the need to intervene.” It was supposed to be a pastoral act, rooted in global episcopal consensus.

Now, thanks to Vatican journalist Diane Montagna, we have a leaked section of the Vatican’s actual synthesis of that 2020 questionnaire. It says the opposite.

Far from widespread concern or hostility, the majority of bishops were reportedly satisfied with the implementation of Summorum Pontificum and warned that changing the status quo would “cause more harm than good.” It was the minority, the usual suspects, who pushed for suppression. Yet they won the day.

And when caught in the act, the Vatican response? “Well, it’s incomplete.”

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