Update: Happy Holidays. Arrested Blog Troll Psycho-Drama Continues. Brand New, Young Allegedly Leftist Tulsa Protective Order Judge Rejects My Initial Application for a Protective Order Hearing. Yet Stalker Blog Troll was Arrested, Arraigned, awaiting Trial and Punishment, Still Posing a Threat

Good evening Dear Readers,

Season blessings to you and yours. 

Just to catch up any readers who were unaware, months ago a crazed anti-Catholic, anti-traditionalist reader, who in the past I demanded multiple times no more contact, to stop sending me harassing emails through my blog email which he has done for years  (they were more than just annoying trolling as is common for blogs), that has resulted in past police reports, sent me across several days nine more harassing emails.   

He was attacking my traditional Catholic views accusing me of “spewing hate.”  One of them was literally a death threat, which legally is a form of “terroristic harassment.”  I doubt he will in the short term track me down (it does happen, just ask Charlie Kirk’s wife), but it now crosses a grave and criminal line that someone in my position cannot ignore.  

The New Protective Order 

Court Judge

Became a Judge 10 Weeks Ago

This indirectly also poses an ongoing threat long term to my  wife and family.  For exercising my civil rights and defending the Faith of Our Fathers, and the Natural Law against modernism and liberalism, on these pages since 2016 (10 year anniversary approaching!). 

So be it. 

The judge was literally 10 weeks ago simply a young lawyer.  She looks to be maybe early 30’s.  I’m guesstimating I lawyer for about 7 years.  Her public profile posts paints her as a warrior for social justice.  A verifiable local organization of journalists describes her online as a leftist judge already showing signs of alleged corruption in multiple cases.   

I gave her an air tight, exhaustive application for a protective order hearing, with 3 police reports just from the past year, with an abundance of hard evidence of stalking and harassment, primarily in the form of the emails  That this guy is a convicted violent felon for attacking a minor and patient with a knife.  His terroristic threat to me itself referenced a knife.  The case has already recently been judged by TWO separate judges that there is probable cause to process formal charges against him in court.

If anyone had to file police reports against this man, and he kept contacting them through their blog email (or Facebook messenger, etc) and they respond demanding him to stop all contact, and the man responds next sending them this (see below) everybody and their dog would understand that is a physical threat, and actually a death threat considering the character and the knife.  Not necessarily a plan to exact the threat, but at least a statement meant to communicate a threat.  

Here it is:  LINK

There was a reasonable delay in me filing recently  because of my ongoing severe total body pain medical condition I am still recovering from. Most days I am not well enough to leave the house, and usually only being able to drive short distances.  My submission (to be submitted Monday) includes  my medical records, my wife’s affidavit re my condition, a detective and victims advocate recommending a protective order, and a detailed history of the severity of the illness just in the last few months since the man was charged with a warrant for his arrest.  

I’ve exhausted myself in writing (that is the Motion to re-consider to be submitted Monday) listing in detail all additional evidence, and specifically the multiple reasons why, despite this being a public blog, this man’s many emails to my blog address, including grotesque insults and the clear death threat, are not free speech.  

We all have freedom of speech, but it is limited and balanced by other people’s natural rights as encoded into law. Self-identified traditionalists and conservatives (and people who are religious like Christians) have a right to share their beliefs and views online and in public.  But leftists do not have a right to retaliate with harassment or threats, or go so far as to murder such as in the case just recently of the assassination of the heroic Charlie Kirk. 

This is presently the state of the present “culture war.”  It’s everywhere.  The Left resorting to violence and oppression and cancel culture to persecute Christians and liberty-loving patriots, sometimes enabled by leftist government officials.  

Within TWO hours this judge slapped down my application this week submitted that very day with a rejection. documenting in her Report ZERO reasons for the dismissal, denying the application, to simply be allowed in her courtroom to plead by case for a protective order, to protect me and indirectly my family.

Per her minute clerk, it was literally stated I have no right to file a motion or request to reopen the application and reconsider, with new added evidence.  She told me in writing (one reason I prefer settling grave matters in writing) since my application was denied, this kind of motion does not follow the legal process, that I must wait for “NEW” (her emphasis using caps) incidents of harassment to re-apply.

B.S.   Her response is a lie, and denying due process, per Oklahoma statute Title 12, etc.  All in writing.  Smart.  Time to lawyer up, and bring these dictators before a jury, and ask for both compensation and punitive damages.  

So I ignored her lie and deception, and instead am submitting anyway a Motion by certified mail to the judge via her office to re-consider with another exhaustive list of new evidence.  Not one court house clerk of SIX I asked across FOUR offices would help me with which office I should file the motion, me saying I am representing myself Pro Se.  

Apparently they think I have to pay a lawyers to be told which office to go to, and which form to fill out.  

I am forced to expect the judge sends me back to the shadows a second time, giving me her boot again up my back side.  

So be it.  Two can play that game.  And the way I will play it is through the law.  

The law is on my side.  We Okies, Republican or Democrat, don’t like allegedly leftist social justice warriors being promoted up through the ranks of our public institutions to exact their political agenda on average people seeking justice. 

Not even Governor Stitt who apparently appointed her about TEN weeks ago.  I doubt if he or his wife was exactly in my shoes, that they’d lay down on this.  He’d likely say in defense of his own God-given human dignity,, or that of his wife, “What the hell was I thinking to appoint this person to the bench?”  

I expect to get the boot a second time this next week.  If not, I will update this post.  If so, I’ll also update, and this goes to court.  God’s will be done.  

My last thought, all of this, including these posts, will not demoralize me, but rather it inspires me upward, and this cannot be used against me or the state (the actual plaintiff) by the defendant’s defense attorney, or by anyone in this criminal/civil case. 

I wish this man peace and the Catholic Faith, I seek no revenge, but I know he will be stopped and punished through the Law, which is from and subject to the Divine and Eternal Law of God (ST, Prima Secundae, 93, 3).  

Vivo Cristo Rey!!

———————————————————

It is now time for a bit of spiked egg nog in honor of St. Nicholas.  Blessed Feast Day, this mentally sharpening bitter cold evening here from the Heartland.  

Yours truly,

Okie Trad 

Traditionalism in the Social and Political Sphere

See below my recent thoughts on Catholic Traditionalism. This apples also to the social and political sphere within the secular realm outside that universal visible structure of the Church Christ founded, Christ being the Creator and Lord over both. 

Social or cultural Traditionalism (not to get hung up on semantics), in its core is a universal Ideal.  It transcends the current conservative-liberal spectrum.  It represents by definition what is timeless, perennial, universal, rooted in the natural order of the Cosmos and universal moral laws (the Natural Law), Western civilization and its roots, as well as the best of the East.  

This Ideal can and ought to appeal to everyone along today’s spectrum.  It is a universal force that draws us together to the virtuous mean, the Via Media, the Middle Way, the Golden Mean. where exists that which is truly good, true, and beautiful, those transcendentals that are embedded into everything.  

This is why we must fight to restore and preserve the best of our Christian, Western civilization. This is why we must not be silent. When a Catholic Traditionalist fights to defend Catholic Tradition, they are likewise, albeit on a more secondary level, seeking to defend and align they and their family to that Tradition God has also indirectly established by means of culture, Christ being the King not only over the pope and bishops, but over every government and society.  

This is why I am in my private life, and through my public writing in the literary genre of the “blog,” an Okie Traditionalist through and through. 

On Traditional Catholicism

There was a time it was enough to call ourselves Christians, but then we had to call ourselves Catholic to distinguish ourselves from early Church heretics and schismatics.  And then there was a time we had to call ourselves Roman Catholics to distinguish those of us in union with Rome from the Church of England. 

And now we must call ourselves traditional Catholics to distinguish Catholics explicitly loyal to Catholic Tradition and the TLM from Catholics who are not.  It is a practical necessity. 

Traditional Catholicism is no more than following the Faith of our Catholic ancestors going back to the Apostles.  It is aligning with the way the Faith was presented and practiced up until the Second Vatican Council and the conciliar period.  It does not, nor should it be equated to joining an American,1950’s style religious, politically conservative private country club of elites, those who subscribe to that model being in practice social darwinists, as if that is the Catholic standard for the TLM parish or chapel. Traditional Catholicism relative to the Novus Ordo is extraordinary, but relative to itself and Church history is doing what was ordinary before 1962.  It means simply being Catholic, whereas Novus Ordo modernism or the ape of the Church does not. 

Please Pray for Evelyn in ICU

Please  pray for my wife’s cousin Evelyn in the Philippines, fighting for her life in the ICU, intubated unable to breathe on her own.  Pray she either survives or has a holy and happy death. She is single, in her 40’s, having struggled for some time with severe mental illness. Recently she had a brain clot followed by brain surgery.  

She seems in young enough health to have a fighting chance, and hopefully if she pulls through can get rehab to get back in her feet to continue having a future to do good works, and grow in holiness. She is a lifelong practicing Catholic, attached to the Latin Mass and the SSPX.  

When she was younger she had good mental and physical health, once discerned a religious vocation at first in the Philippines with the House of Bethany ran by the SSPX. She was called back into the world, became a physical therapist, and worked for a time in Canada.  

Unfortunately, due to several traumatic experiences and factors, including homesickness, loneliness, losing her job then losing her housing, becoming semi-homeless, she during this period basically had a severe breakdown that she never recovered from, returning to the Philippines to live back with her family a very ill, poor, isolated life with very little support or resources. 

Since she has lead a Catholic life, it seems she is a victim soul.  My wife is right now arranging an SSPX priest to give her Last Rites in the hospital.  Will give updates.  

We all keep walking through this valley of tears, some greatly blessed with prosperity, others assigned the task of Job, to be a witness to the love of God, and God’s love for us, in suffering. 

Lauren Emig of SSPX OKC (RIP)

Please pray and have Masses said for the soul of Lauren Emig, and parishioner of St. Michael’s Chapel (SSPX) in Oklahoma City, who passed away recently at the young age of 39, after a two year battle with cancer.  She is survived by her husband and eleven children.  

She made our wedding cake and sang in our wedding at SSPX Tulsa back on 2011.  I’ve known her and her family since 2001.  She was a model of virtue, piety, and motherhood, to the community.   

Please consider donating to the surviving husband and children by contacting the pastor through the St. Michael’s Chapel-OKC website.  

I have confidence that either Lauren is in heaven, or in purgatory near the Pearly Gates,  needing our prayers and penances to get her into heaven, with all the other Holy Souks.  It is fitting her passing took place during November, in part dedicated to the Holy Souls.  

That is a peaceful thought.  Fall, especially November with the cool, crisp temperatures and Fall colors, is a time of rest and peace.  May her soul, and all the souls of the faithfully departed, through the mercy of God,  rest in peace. 

Update # 2: Blog Troll Pleads Not Guilty

Court appearance # 2 was yesterday. Stalker Blog troll pled not guilty to multiple emails he sent the prosecutor’s office considered criminal harassment, one email being a threat.  

Given what the law actually says, all the hard evidence, my multiple past police reports, and the fact he has a long criminal history including a violent felony against a minor, etc, the odds he wins at trial is 0%.  

The consequence of lying yesterday to the court, refusing to take any accountability, means he does not care that harassment, stalking, and threats are criminal acts. 

Had he plead no contest or guilty, either way, I would have advocated for a merciful sentence like community service and counseling.  That ship has sailed. Now I’m asking for increased charges and incarceration time. 

Jury trial sounding docket set for 12/11.  I hope he is ready for the possibility of going to jail or prison, in which case a 6’ x 8’ cell with bars and an orange jump suit await him. 

Our Lady IS the Co-redemptrix Mediatrix of all Graces. The “Let’s Wait and See. Give the New Pope the Benefit of the Doubt” Ship has Sailed.

First, we have every right to call Our Lady the Co-redemptrix Mediatrix of All Graces. 

Tucho and Leo are outweighed by SIX previous Popes using the title Co-redemptrix. 

The recent document says “always inappropriate,” but it doesn’t say it has NOW in recent times become inappropriate.  That statement then condemns any use of the title at any time, which necessarily includes by past popes.  That is impossible.

Those past Popes used the title in documents of greater weight and higher authority than the DDF’s “note.”  In making a choice, which you must make, you therefore go with the traditional teaching.  

Bishop Schneider recently lamented the document as minimizing Mary, saying that strictly speaking it is not a prohibition of the title.    

May Our Lady Co-redemptrix Mediatrix of All Graces be honored as uniquely and intimately participating with (“co” in Latin = with, not equal) Christ’s Redemption of the Cross, and as a channel of His Grace.  

May she crush the modernists in the Vatican. 

I am no longer giving Leo “the benefit of the doubt.”  Up until this document I was. That ship has now sailed.  We had some outward signs of hope coming out of the gait, and charity demanded I “wait and see.” 

But by now all evidence is that we no longer have reason to hope—on the human level—this pope will actively try to end the Crisis, either in 2025, 2026, 2027, or in any other year, including how that crisis devolved to new levels of absurdity since Francis.  

In the end Christ will bring the Crisis to an end.  But for now we move forward in darkness. 

Going forward the strategy should not be to build a special bridge from the traditionalist movement to Leo, post-Francis, to get him on our side, to re-liberate the true Mass through diplomacy, but now going forward to simply and clearly let him know we adamantly refuse to compromise on the Faith, including on the Mass in the name of blind or false obedience.  

And that means we will continue to call Our Lady Co-redemptrix and Mediatrix, and that we refuse to minimize the role of the Mother of God. 

If he will re-liberate the true Mass, it will be an act of justice and honor to God. In justice he must do it.  If he will not, and as he continues not to do it, he single-handedly causes traditionalists to rightfully protest modernism and liberalism in the Church, both in the abstract and in their concrete applications, especially coming out of the Vatican, MUCH MORE than ever before.  He would be causing  more war in the Church, and we would keep defending the Faith, the Church of 2000 years, and what is necessary and integral to save our souls.   

He will drive all traditionalists rightly to the SSPX and the like, and more public resistance to the errors.  He would be driving the SSPX even closer to consecrate more bishops under the circumstance if he does not give approval.  

If he wants true unity, he would liberate the true Mass without delay, and start restoring the Church without delay. But he signed that document that effectively insulted Our Lady and pushed her off into the shadows.  That is not being kind or diplomatic.  I am rightfully angry he did that, as should everyone.  

Christ did not institute the Faith to serve the hierarchy and papacy.  They are joined together but distinct. He instituted the hierarchy and papacy to serve the Faith.  And part of the Faith are the sacred truths about the Mother of God represented in her title Our Lady Co-redemptrix Mediatrix of All Graces. 

Our Lady Co-redemptrix Mediatrix of All Graces, pray for us. 

Leo’s Document on Mary

It forbids going forward calling Mary “Co-redemptrix.”   It says it is now “always inappropriate.”  That obviously does not mean “always inadvisable” but rather “always should not be done.”

It is a legal and doctrinal ruling. As St. Thomas taught, law directs people either by commanding to do a positive action, forbidding, or permitting (Treatise on Law).  When Francis added to the new catechism that the death penalty is now “always inadmissible,” likewise the meaning was obvious to everyone, that he declared it universally forbidden.  

A dubia can be presented to Tucho and asked if it’s just advice or a prohibition, until then, in my opinion, it is obviously a strict prohibition to use a title already used by popes.  

If the title is confusing to some, then so are terms like “Mother of God,” the “Blessed Sacrament,” justification by “Faith and good works,” or “Outside the Church there is no salvation.”  The problem is not with these terms, but with Protestants in particular failing to understand and truthfully represent their meaning. 

By “Co-redenptorix mediatrix,” the Church using that term meant that Mary a) participates in a unique way with Christ as Redeemer, b) by presenting all our prayers to Christ on the Cross (and therefore in the Mass), c) by giving her Fiat or yes to God to become the Mother of God, d) that the economy of salvation and grace includes not only Christ but her participating in it, e) and that all graces are distributed to her to the human race.  

In other words, you cannot separate Mary from Christ, or vice versa, and her from the economy of grace Christ instituted.  She alone stood at the foot of the Cross as a co-redeemer, that is linked uniquely to Christ as Redeemer in such a way that no other human being would be linked.  

God could have instituted it differently, but He didn’t.  He chose His Son alone to be the Redeemer and Mary alone to be the Co-redeemer.  This does not mean her suffering and prayers were equal to that of Christ, but greater than any other human being, in such a way that God the Father gave/gives saving grace to the human race by receiving the merits of the holy sacrifice of His Son, but ALSO in some way hearing the prayers of the Mother of God, and dispensing His grace not only through Christ, but from Him downward and universally  through Mary, the Mother of God.  It is God’s power that makes that possible, and placed Mary into that role. 

And there is only one title that represented fully this truth, and that was Our Lady Co-redemptorix Mediatrix of all graces.  It does not take more than a moment to explain it to a person of good will. Translate the Latin, explain simply what it doesn’t mean, and the truths it represents.  

I would say it this way: “the title in Latin means Our Lady co-redeemer and channel of all graces.  Christ alone is the Redeemer.  But His Mother had the secondary role at the foot of the Cross as a co-participant or co-redeemer in redemption.  She did that by becoming the Mother of God, suffering more than any other human being besides her Son, offering all our prayers to Christ on the Cross, and dispensing all graces merited by Christ to the whole human race.  It doesn’t mean she was a god or equal to Christ.  It is her role we believe Christ instituted when he instituted the Church.”

Yet the problem this document now poses is that whenever not only the issue of the title comes up in a discussion or debate, but its doctrinal meaning, then the Protestant or anyone else can point to this new document to deny the traditional Catholic teaching. 

If Tucho or Leo are forbidding me to use that title, my conscience orders me to doubt that is a valid law.  I am at the very least bound to believe what the title means, and in some circumstances explain that teaching to the non-believer. 

If this document means a rejection of traditional Marian teaching represented by the title, then we may now have entered that phase of the Leo pontificate similar to the one entered into after Francis allowed communion for the unrepentant divorced and remarried without an annulment.  Theologians will have to ask if there is anything that approaches doctrinal error in this document.  

At any rate, my obligatory mode since the election of “give the new pope for now the benefit of the doubt” is wearing very thin.  Leo must have known the shock waves and confusion this document would have sent across the world of orthodox Catholics who understand the title, and believe in what that title represents.  

Yet he signed it. 

This document literally says no person can universally dispense Christ’s grace, therefore effectively that Mary cannot do that.  

“No human person — not even the Apostles or the Blessed Virgin — can act as a universal dispenser of grace.”

If God is all powerful and all wise, He certainly can (and does) distribute all His graces of the Cross  through Mary, who offers all our prayers to Christ.  He could have (and did) set up the economy of grace to include Our Lady acting as a co-redeemer and dispenser of grace, properly understood.  

To deny any of this is, for me, a grave insult to our heavenly mother, and it rightfully angers me enough to write this in defense of her.  

Instead of teaching the meaning of the title, Tucho and Leo are effectively banishing not only the title, but the proper meaning of it.   The ecumenical new religion of conciliar modernism, to achieve its goals, must downplay the role of Our Lady.   

She must be placed off in the margins just as the tabernacle, cross, and propitiatory sacrificial nature of the Mass was put off to the side.  

We are no longer kneeling looking up at the traditional sanctuary and high altar, with the cross and tabernacle at the center, with Mary standing intimately at her Son’s feet, with the priest offering a propitiatory sacrifice, with the proper understanding and devotion.   

Now we have a Protestant meal table, happy clappy music, and a version of Mary that has effectively stripped her of her crown as the majestic Queen of heaven and Earth.  As the once titled Co-redemptorix Mediatrix of all graces.  It doesn’t conform to the new religion. 

What is next?????

May the holy wrath of God correct this injustice, even if faithful Catholics have to suffer to “restore all things to Christ.”  Our Lady, who is the co-redeemer and channel of all graces, pray for us. 

Update: Blog Troll Arrested Today

I mentioned recently that a local man who identifies as a Catholic, protesting my traditionalist views as “hatred,” sent me many harassing emails including one that was a threat to my life.  For speaking the truth about the current state of the Church, and insisting he stop all contact, having already made that demand in the past.  

Multiple police reports, a warrant for his arrest, and my own perseverance, resulted today in the police arresting him, booking him into jail.  I plan on being there for every hearing going forward, if possible, and will give updates.  

I pray for this man’s conversion, not just to Christian morality, but also traditional Catholicism, and that the judicial system will be a means to that end.  

Traditionalism Transcends the Political Spectrum in the Church

 The takeover of modernism at and after the Council split the Church into a political divide.  Liberal, moderate, conservative, and traditionalist.  Yet Catholicism IS NOT a political spectrum. 

The beauty and veracity of traditionalism is that it reconnects you with that which holds the Church together, that is Catholic Tradition, while opposing that which created this pagan, City of man political spectrum.  Adhering to Tradition, while it is akin in many ways to conservatism, means transcending the spectrum.  

On certain points it is to the “far right,” but intrinsically it is not.  It transcends those concepts.  Returning to Tradition is like floating down a deep,  clear, old river that brings forth life and ultimately brings you to your final destination.  

Whereas treating that return to Tradition as an ecclesial political reaction on the far right, which is Americanist is like running around a forest chasing a forest fire in a state of frenzy as if that is traditional Catholicism.  The political spectrum was created by the modernists as a chaotic forest fire, giving the false illusion of life, but for the ultimate purpose of destruction of the Faith.  

In conclusion, traditionalism does not define itself as being a part of that forest fire, but rather as living on and being deeply rooted in life giving waters.  Still waters run deep. Happy Fall weather. 

All the Proof You Need. The Charlie Kirk Assassination

Share this video.  There is a 1/1,000,000,000 (that’s one in a billion) chance this sequence is not what it obviously is. Which is an organized conspiracy to assassinate Kirk making the young man the patsty. Two men waiting in suspense. One pushes something on his arm. Immediately there is the sound of a shot with Kirk going down.  Video at that moment shows what looks like an explosion from the area on his shirt with the microphone.  The two men immediately leap across the table. One reaches down to Kirk apparently taking something off him (the microphone) and then quickly handing it to the other guy.  This was an organized effort by professionals with the professional background to pull this off, get away, and scapegoat the kid brainwashed by leftism.

 https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CDLBBbJ3w/?mibextid=wwXIfr

THEY Assassinated Charlie Kirk. What Trump/MAGA Must Do.

Video analysis is conclusive.  The young guy is a Patsy. THEY assassinated Kirk.  And by THEY it is the Israeli Mossad colluding with the leftist wing of the FBI and CIA. Puppets for the Democrat elites, and globalist elites like Soros. We are in a hot war globally which THEY started.  The goal is World War III and global socialism. AKA Communism. Opposed chiefly by the Trump/MAGA movement (which is international), with heroic voices like Kirk.  Let the MAGA bloggers and YouTubers unite. The Daily Wire, Turning Point USA, Tucker Carlson, and the like.  As well as trad bloggers and YouTubers.  For example, check out the SSPX podcast.  We are on the side of MAGA to defeat the globalist conspiracy and Communism in the name of Christ’s kingdom on Earth. 

First, someone must sit down with Kirk’s wife to launch themselves a private investigation who conspired to kill Kirk including whoever was behind putting the exploding microphone on his shirt that day Second, Trump and Tulsi must form a special task force of trusted FBI and CIA agents to investigate their own organizations and Mossad for the individuals who planned this, Eliot Ness-style.  Especially focus on Soros and Netanyahu. MAGA must harness all its powers asap to root out and punish all those behind this assassination.  Time is of the essence. 

My Thoughts on the First Pope Leo Interview

This interview in my opinion places a check mark in the negative column of how good of a pope we can expect Pope Leo to be.  I’m still in “wait and see mode,” observing also the check marks in the positive column.  Yet he speaks as if doctrine on homosexuality and women’s ordination could in theory change.  

Best interpretation is it is an ambiguous philosophical statement to correct liberals to change their attitudes before discussing doctrine.  Very hard to think he could believe in the possibility of the Church changing those teachings, but many will read him as being open to it.   

Also, in my opinion his comments on the TLM were vague and not helpful for TLM attendees.  He said he wants to end polarization over the issue by submitting the issue to “synodality.”  Red flag.  

The conciliar reform of the Mass and modernism has created the polarization, not traditionalists objecting to this liturgical reform based on their fidelity to Catholic doctrine.   Were we to be petrified into silence, we would still be partly blamed for the polarization for adhering to Tradition. 

And unless one disregards their rights and succumbs to narcissistic bullying by those in authority, traditionalists responding with polemical critiques, with the exception of a tiny handful of crazed bloggers and YouTubers who turn it into a LARPING video game to gain points and $$$, traditionalists are not CAUSING the polarization.  We are responding to it proportionally, Holy Father.  

True, especially in the US, some can politicize their defense of the TLM more as an Americanist alt right  culture war against liberalism in Church and society, than a stance of faith.  But overall that is not the root of the polar divide around the world.  

It is a divide between the ancient and venerable Roman rite and everything that comes with it, and a rite that diverges from the teachings of the Council of Trent on the nature of the Mass.  The interview shows the pope’s diplomacy to both sides and centrist priority of ending polarization and disunity, but being silent on the truth of the TLM and the persecution of faithful Catholics. 

Yet we, knowing the basis of unity in charity is unity in the truth, in the doctrine of the Faith, hope that at least one step the kind , diplomatic Pope Leo will take in restoring unity in doctrine, and therefore true unity in the Church founded on the Faith itself, is to end the persecution of Latin Mass Catholics and undo the draconian, traumatizing Traditionis Custodes as soon as possible.  

Liturgical leftists are not currently in a state of grave pain and suffering over this issue.  Families and individuals devoted to the Latin Mass, now with no or very limited access to the Mass of the Saints are because of TC (70% of traditionalists attended a diocesan TLM, most without access to the FSSP, Institute, or SSPX).  They are the ones right now greatly suffering.  

As an aside, it would mean major check marks in the positive column if it can be verified that Pope Leo was offering the TLM, and if he will explicitly uphold Pope Benedict’s liturgical teaching in Summorum Pontificum that the TLM remains a vital part of the Church’s praxis.  Christine Niles and Patrick Madrid, for what their reporting is worth, themselves verified through sources in Rome the pope did say before the TLM in private.  Also, it is said he was very much in support of Pope Benedict’s theological analysis.  So time will tell.