text: I agree with you that it is shocking but in the context of Cordileone and the past 35-years of "the reform of the reform," it is sadly understandable.  Francis, with all his gifts, came too late.  He would need to live past 100, undo the damage of JP2 and B16.
  
  I am a graduate of St. Mary Seminary & University in Baltimore.  The Sulpicians have made a tremendous contribution to the formation of over a century of priests and since Vatican II, of lay leadership.   That debt of gratitude owed to this community by the Church is unquestioned.  As one who has left the "Roman Catholic Church," but not the "Catholic Church," this is for me another example of the schism that has long since started in the Roman Church and will only continue.  
  
  While there are those who would harden back to a time of bells and smells, Latin, and an unchanging understanding of doctrine, there are far more who yearn of a spiritual community that is the best of the Catholic tradition.