Traditional Catholics are well aware of Francis’ relentless efforts to eradicate the traditional Catholic Mass. He has followed up his “Traditionis custodes” edict with subsequent demands that his bishops squelch the traditional Mass throughout the world. Despite the reluctance of some new order bishops to outright ban the Mass, groups such as the Fraternity of Saint Peter and Institute of Christ the King are well aware of Francis’ disdain for the true Mass and the threat that poses to them. Oddly enough, such groups — which formed in the attempt to practice the traditional Catholic Faith within the modernists’ New Order — continue to pretend that they are fully approved and in the good graces of the Vatican and that priests of traditional Catholic societies, such as the Society of Saint Pius V, are not approved by the New Order modernists and are therefore not legitimate and not Catholic. But two points help to dispel their accusations: (1) The only reason such groups as the Fraternity of Saint Peter and the Institute of Christ the King still have a 1962 Latin Mass today is because there were priests before them who, despite condemnations and denunciations from the Vatican, kept offering the traditional Mass when it was strictly forbidden by the authorities in the Vatican for almost 20 years. And (2) those heroic traditional priests understood that no authority could ever legitimately forbid the traditional Mass.

Now the New-Order-approved groups have already conceded that the modernists of the New Order have the authority to permit them and to forbid them to hold the traditional Mass. Since they've been boasting that they have the necessary authorization to offer the traditional Mass, and condemning those who don’t have that permission, what will they do when that “permission” is taken away? Will they “obey” by abandoning the true Mass, and abandoning themselves to the New Mass? Will they forsake the traditional Roman Rite of Mass and adopt the sacrilegious New Order of Paul VI? Or will they cast off the pretense of approval needed for Catholic priests to offer the true Mass, and thus admit the truth that no authority can legitimately order the destruction of the true Mass, forbid priests from offering it and the Catholic people from attending it?