The Hollow Traditionalism of Post-Conciliar Liturgical Theater
The Catholic News Agency portal (January 20, 2026) reports that antipope Leo XIV will celebrate the Holy Thursday “Mass of the Lord’s Supper” at St. John Lateran, reversing his predecessor Francis’ practice of holding the service in detention centers. Monsignor Giovanni Falbo calls Francis’ innovation an “exception” motivated by “predilection for the poor,” while praising Leo XIV’s decision as restoring “uninterrupted practice of the last century.” This theatrical shuffling of modernist liturgical experiments constitutes not a return to tradition, but evidence of the conciliar sect’s fundamental rupture with Catholic ecclesiology.