[Originally published in the Immaculate Conception Church bulletin on February 24th 2013.]

For the past several years under Benedict XVI, there has been steady talk of blending, or synthesizing, the New Mass with the traditional Latin Mass (actually the 1962 version) in order to produce a "hybrid rite of Mass." Benedict himself spoke of this as a way for the two rites -- the modern and the traditional -- to mutually enrich one another. But the new Modernist liturgy developed from Vatican II cannot honestly and legitimately be blended with the traditional Catholic Mass. The two rites are intrinsically opposed to each other; between them is a difference not only of style but of substance. That is, they are not only mutually contradictory in their spirit and manner; they are contrary to each other on the level of their fundamental principles. They can be united only in the insane (or dishonest) Hegelian sense of forming a synthesis by uniting the contraries of thesis and antithesis to form a new synthesis -- which is something previously unknown and unheard of.

The novus ordo Missae (or New Order of Mass) was called for and crafted precisely to be a form of ecumenical worship service, a fact which is patent from the words and actions of those who demanded it, those who designed it, and those who imposed it. But its ecumenical character means that it is deliberately ambiguous and heterodox. In order to serve as an ecumenical service acceptable to Catholics and non-Catholics alike, it studiously obscures the truths of the Catholic Faith -- especially as regards the very essence of the Mass -- not by explicitly denying those truths, but by doing what is much more dangerous and deadly to faith. The new liturgy implicitly undermines the faith in the souls of worshippers by de-emphasizing or even excluding altogether the essential meaning of the Mass and by emphasizing instead those aspects which promote the Protestant notion of the Mass as a sacred meal shared by the congregation in memory of the Lord. Such studied ambiguity is utterly opposed to God, Who is the clarity of truth itself, opposed to Our Lord, Who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and opposed to the Catholic Faith, which condemns the prevarication of heterodoxy.

Can anyone reconcile Christ's command to proclaim the truths of Faith throughout the whole world with the Modernist deception of "prevarication by double-talk?"