Bishop Schneider Compares Pope Francis’ Crushing of Latin Mass to a Shepherd Angrily Beating His Sheep With a Stick, by Diane Montagna

(The Remnant) – In his first print interview since the release of Pope Francis’ new decree restricting the Traditional Latin Mass, Traditionis Custodes, Bishop Athanasius Schneider has said the document “demeans” a thousand-year-old liturgy of the Roman Rite, commits an “injustice” against Catholics who adhere to it, and creates a “two-class society” in the Church.

“The privileged first-class are those who adhere to the reformed liturgy,” Bishop Schneider asserts, “and the second-class Catholics, who will now barely be tolerated, include a large number of Catholic families, children, young people and priests” who, through the traditional liturgy, have “experienced, with great spiritual benefit, the reality and mystery of the Church.” …