Rex Mottram, Catholic Blogger

"Yesterday I asked him whether Our Lord had more than one nature. He said: 'Just as many as you say, Father.' Then again I asked him: 'Supposing the Pope looked up and saw a cloud and said 'It's going to rain', would that be bound to happen?' 'Oh, yes, Father.' 'But supposing it didn't?' He thought a moment and said, "I suppose it would be sort of raining spiritually, only we were too sinful to see it.'"--Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead RevisitedSometimes I think that Rex Mottram is a Catholic blogger. If you are unfamiliar with the name, I would urge you to read Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (as I would urge everyone else as well).  Mottram was the Protestant fiance of Lady Julia Flyte, who was Catholic.  In order to marry her he agreed to take instruction from the Flyte's priest.  He proved exceptionally docile to the priest's teachings-- in fact, much too docile.  He was ready to state he believed anything at all just so he could be married in the Church.  The above paragraph is the lament of this priest to the Flyte family as he related Rex's progress.Well, further to my post of yesterday, I wanted to comment on the so-called Trad complaint-fest about the new Pope.  I have read many more complaints about Trad complaints than I have read traditional Catholic blogger complaints themselves.  In fact, it strikes me that the phenomenon is nearly entirely made up by Rex Mottrams who are waiting for the next Pope to tell us when it will rain.  And we know that if a trad can't see or feel the rain, then they just too sinful to discern it.To repeat:  merely noting the Archbishop of Buenos Aires' past decisions relating to the liturgy isn't the same-- it isn't in the same ballpark-- as "trashing the Pope".  Just because someone notes that a hybrid part-novus ordo/part-TLM Mass was said once a month in Buenos Aires after Summorum Pontificum was promulgated doesn't make the new Holy Father a champion for the ancient Mass.  It doesn't necessarily make him an enemy of it either.  It just is what it is.But this hybrid Mass is not actually the Traditional Latin Mass, Rex, and the problem, Rex, is not that we are too sinful, or not spiritual enough, to see it. Does this mean we reject the Holy Father?  Absolutely not.  He is Christ's Vicar on Earth.  The man who fills the office might be great, or not, or holy, or not, or liturgically-minded, or not, or any number of things.  The office makes the man, so to speak.  I love the Holy Father, because I should and I must.  I gladly give him my filial obedience.OK? When I was trying to locate the Brideshead quote above, I came across this post from the past on another site-- there is one excerpt there (from another context) I wish to quote, as it has some relevance to the matters at hand: Rex believed papal infallibility meant that whatever the pope proclaimed, it must be so even if it didn't square with what our lying eyes were telling us. The pope is the servant, not the master, of the Deposit of Faith. Some have described the pope as the last absolute monarch on earth, but that isn't accurate; the pope is chained by Tradition.So, pray for the Holy Father.  He has a very difficult job to do and he has our support.  But he doesn't need people making stuff up about him to do that job, or to do it well.Pax.