From Cardinal Castillon’s address to the Latin Mass Society of England & Wales, I thought that the following were words worthy of note:

Finally I ask your prayers for those of us called to assist the Holy Father in Rome in this delicate work of facilitating the Church’s ancient liturgical tradition. Please be patient with us: we are very few and there is much work to be done.

Indeed, as I’ve been given to understand, not even Msgr. Camille Perl, the secretary of the Pontifical Commision Eccleasia Dei adflicta, is really, in any sense, a traditionalist – it’s just the job he got stuck with. So there’s Cardinal Castrillon, but how many other cardinals? Perhaps he is the only cardinal in Rome in the number of those who have advancing the Tridentine Rite at heart. And now the battle over whether Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige Don will become the next Prefect of the CDW . . . .

Since it’s very easy to become frustrated with Rome, with its slowness, with its often bizarre statements from bizarre councils and commissions (like that goofball pronouncement on Rules of the Road, or whatever it was), we should remember that it’s an uphill battle for those in Rome, including the Holy Father, who are on our side.