It’s not allowed in the New Mass but is Traditionally Obligatory in the Roman Rite

Of course, one can wear a suit to any Mass

Promotion?

The fruits of the event seem to be scandal and a spirit of indifferentism

Everything around us urges us to mourn. The images of the saints, the very crucifix on our altar, are veiled from our sight. The Church is oppressed with grief. During the first four weeks of Lent, she compassionated her Jesus fasting in the desert; His coming sufferings and crucifixion and death are what now fill her with anguish. We read in to-day’s Gospel, that the Jews threaten to stone the Son of God as a blasphemer: but His hour is not yet come. He is obliged to flee and hide Himself. It is to express this deep humiliation, that the Church veils the cross. A God hiding Himself, that He may evade the anger of men - what a mystery! Is it weakness? Is it, that He fears death? No; we shall soon see Him going out to meet His enemies: but at present He hides Himself from them, because all that had been prophesied regarding Him has not been fulfilled. Besides, His death is not to be by stoning: He is to die upon a cross, the tree of malediction, which, from that time forward, is to be the tree of life. Let us humble ourselves, as we see the Creator of heaven and earth thus obliged to hide Himself from men, who are bent on His destruction! Let us go back, in thought, to the sad day of the first sin, when Adam and Eve bid themselves because a guilty conscience told them they were naked. Jesus has come to assure us of our being pardoned, and lo! He hides Himself, not because He is naked - He that is to the saints the garb of holiness and immortality - but because He made Himself weak, that He might make us strong. Our first parents sought to hide themselves from the sight of God; Jesus hides Himself from the eye of men. But it will not be thus for ever. The day will come when sinners, from whose anger He now flees, will pray to the mountains to fall on them and shield them from His gaze; but their prayer will not be granted, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven, with much power and majesty [St. Matt. xxiv. 30].

• Dom Prosper Gueranger

Why? Islam is evil

Even if all the things contained in his law were fables in philosophy and errors in theology, even for those who do not possess the light of reason, the very manners Islam teaches are from a school of vicious bestialities. Muhammad did not prove his new sect with any motive, having neither supernatural miracles nor natural reasons, but solely the force of arms, violence, fictions, lies, and carnal license. It remains an impious, blasphemous, vicious cult, an innovention of the devil, and the direct way into the fires of hell. It does not even merit the name of being called a religion. - St. Juan de Ribera

For Almighty God, Who desires that all men shall be saved and that none shall perish, approves nothing more highly in us than this: that a man love his fellow man next to his God and do nothing to him which he would not that others should do to himself. This affection we and you owe to each other in a more peculiar way than to people of other races because we worship and confess the same God though in diverse forms and daily praise and adore Him as the creator and ruler of this world. For, in the words of the Apostle, ‘He is our peace who hath made both one. This grace granted to you by God is admired and praised by many of the Roman nobility who have learned from us of your benevolence and high qualities.

• Pope St. Gregory VII, letter to the Muslim King of Mauritania

Jeremiah foretold the future: that in the time of the New Testament all men will know the one God, which is certainly now fulfilled. For the Gentiles have been converted to the Faith, and also the Jews and the Turks, who, although they are impious, still worship the one God.

• St Robert Bellarmine, De Verbo Dei

Jesus was a Jew yes, but the Jewish religion was fulfilled by Christ, Christianity and the Catholic Church have succeeded the Old Covenant. Modern Jews are the descendants of the Jews who refused to accept their Messiah

A beautiful tradition, sadly people rarely even kneel to recieve communion anymore

Catholics can support all sorts of systems, democracy isn’t bad per se just because it has in some cases led to bad outcomes

In the first place, no political form of any kind whatsoever, whether democratic or popular, is of itself (ex se) Liberalism. Forms are mere forms and nothing more. Forms of government do not constitute their essence. Their forms are but their accidents. Their essence consists in the civil authority by virtue of which they govern, whether that authority be in form republican, democratic, aristocratic, monarchical; it may be an elective, hereditary, mixed or absolute monarchy. These various forms of themselves have nothing to do with Liberalism. Any one of them may be perfectly and integrally Catholic. If they accept beyond their own sovereignty the sovereignty of God, if they confess that they derive their authority from Him, if they submit themselves to the inviolable rule of the Christian law, if they hold for indisputable in their parliaments all that is defined by this law, if they acknowledge as the basis of public right the supreme morality of the Church and her absolute right in all things within her own competency, they are truly Catholic governments, whatever be their form, and the most exacting Ultramontanism cannot reproach them. - Fr. Felix Sarda y Salvany, Liberalism is a Sin

It depends where you are, here in England we have to abstain from meat on Fridays year round

Lord have mercy upon him.

I pray that the damage he unleashed on the Church and on the lives of his innocent victims can be somehow repaired

A truly evil man

This article in the Liturgical Arts Journal mentions some of the ceremonial differences

There are also 2 articles (1 2) on the differences in a Solemn Pontifical Mass in the Rite of Lyons

8%

This isn’t true, unless you can actually cite a canon to this effect.

Much better than the days of “Goodbye, good men”

The influence of JPII and especially Benedict XVI (including his days in the CDF) helped to sort out a lot of doctrinal stuff (although there are still problems) and the American Church has probably had the best response to the sexual abuse crisis, men are screened more at seminary and there is a zero tolerance approach not found in a lot of the Catholic world

The Sacrament of Holy Orders was instituted at the Last Supper, and the Apostles were made Priests and Bishops there

Yeah I’m not saying it’s better because it’s older though

I haven’t received from the chalice since I was a child, I don’t attend the NO anymore so I’m not likely to ever recieve from the chalice again

The Apostles at the Last Supper were all Bishops tbf

And in communion in the hand being older, firstly councils were beginning to forbid it as early as the 4th century, and secondly the idea that we should do it just because it is older is exactly the false antiquarianism condemned by Pius XII in Mediator Dei

It is an error, nay more, a very heresy, to seek to banish the devout life from the soldier’s guardroom, the mechanic’s workshop, the prince’s court, or the domestic hearth. Of course a purely contemplative devotion, such as is specially proper to the religious and monastic life, cannot be practised in these outer vocations, but there are various other kinds of devotion well-suited to lead those whose calling is secular, along the paths of perfection. The Old Testament furnishes us examples in Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, David, Job, Tobias, Sarah, Rebecca and Judith; and in the New Testament we read of St. Joseph, Lydia and Crispus, who led a perfectly devout life in their trades:—we have S. Anne, Martha, S. Monica, Aquila and Priscilla, as examples of household devotion, Cornelius, S. Sebastian, and S. Maurice among soldiers;—Constantine, S. Helena, S. Louis, the Blessed Amadaeus, and S. Edward on the throne. And we even find instances of some who fell away in solitude,—usually so helpful to perfection,—some who had led a higher life in the world, which seems so antagonistic to it. S. Gregory dwells on how Lot, who had kept himself pure in the city, fell in his mountain solitude. Be sure that wheresoever our lot is cast we may and must aim at the perfect life. - St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life

They should go and live in a Muslim country then