Please find below the content of an email that I sent to Bishop Olson requesting clarification.
Dear Bishop Olson,
My name is..[Introduction Redacted]
Pursuant to your actions vis-à-vis the prohibition of the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite from taking place at the chapel of Fisher More College, I have the following questions:
What problem is this prohibition intended to remedy?
Is this prohibition the least restrictive measure possible to effect that remedy?
What consultations, if any, were held with the school to avoid such actions?
Are there clear criteria or actions set out which, if followed, would allow for the restoration of permission for the public celebration of the EF at Fisher More College?
Since the offering of the Extraordinary Form is key to the mission of Fisher More College and is a particular attraction for many of its students and their families, is it of concern to you prohibiting the EF may undermine such attraction to the school and thereby precipitate its demise?
Since no public communication regarding this matter has been issued by your office, is it your position that the prohibition of the ongoing public celebration of the mass in the Extraordinary form does not require a reasonably adequate public explanation?
Pursuant to the rights and restrictions spelled out in the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, could you please cite the canonical authority you relied on to implement the prohibition of one form of the Roman rite?
As this matter is of significant and legitimate concern beyond the campus of Fisher More College, any further information you could provide relevant to the questions above would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Patrick Archbold
March 4, 2014 at 4:38 pm
Yep! I don't understand the claim by some that claimed management problems justify the denial of the TLM (while authorizing the Novus Ordo). There is no possible link. There is no possibility that the Extraordinary Form could be dangerous to spiritual health.
March 4, 2014 at 5:56 pm
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March 4, 2014 at 6:18 pm
Taylor Marshall has commented on this https://www.facebook.com/DrTaylorMarshall/posts/400180263452671
March 4, 2014 at 6:44 pm
I have read Dr. Marshall's post and it demonstrates a clearly lamentable situation at the college. Yet, my questions above are not answered by it.
March 4, 2014 at 7:42 pm
What I find interesting from some of the responses is that most of you are not thinking through to the big picture…if a Bishop, no matter where he is, can stop an organization from saying the Latin Mass, this should put up some red flags. Where is his authority coming from? And those of us who gladly attend the EF are I'm sure wondering, could we possibly be next?
We live in a world where no one wants to cause waves and we should obey authority wherever it comes from and bow down to it. Why do you think the world is what it is today? Catholics/ Protestants have not stood up for their beliefs and for God and are society is showing the results of this. Should we stand idly by while the EF might be taken away from us once again? I say no! We must be kind but firm and fight for our right to have the EF of the Mass wherever it is offered.
March 4, 2014 at 7:43 pm
I thought that Dr. Marshall's post would at least give some pause to folks with queries like this. When I read it, it seemed pretty clear that there is a difficult pastoral situation that the bishop is handling that isn't primarily about the EF, but about obedience to the bishop and the Magisterium. Why aren't you questioning the head about using priests w/o faculties? Talk about leading the flock astray: I would think that the parents and students are feeling really betrayed by the head.
March 4, 2014 at 7:48 pm
Michelle, if you read Dr. Marshall's post, you'll see that the bishop isn't violating Church law. Do you want the EF mass celebrated by a priest w/o faculties? That's the problem: massive disobedience. The FSSP priests won't celebrate at FMC because the head is fomenting disobedience and actively teaching that V2 is invalid.
March 4, 2014 at 7:59 pm
Michelle, et al,
The big picture is as Cardinal Maderias of Boston once quiped when confronted by those who in the name of the "big picture" tried correcting him, " my dear people I am the Diocese of Boston".
If the Lord needed someone to police every breath and move a bishop makes He would have established a Gestapo and imbued them with more authority than the Bishops, successors to the Apostles, He didn't and that is the "big picture", live with it or leave no one is compelled to stay in the Church, but one is asked to love Her no matter what trials and tribulations She suffers.