Is that therefore a good safe haven for traditional Catholics over the long term?
The disasterous Liturgical ruination “mandated” during the 1960’s and 1970’s had no application to the Eastern Rites. They were as yet left alone and allowed to continue as they had all along, and as such were by far the main place the Church still subsisted within the Vatican institution during those years. Unfortunately, the Devil, having done what he can to the Latin Rite, is now beginning to turn his attention to the Eastern Rites. Abuses which were unheard of even as late as the mid-1980’s in the Eastern Rites have since sprouted and multiplied, and the Eastern Rites are now progressively being vernacularized and corrupted. As of the turn of the millennium, their level of damage was quite comparable to the level of damage the Latin Rite had suffered by the year 1966. The Eastern Rites are still valid; their vernacular tranlations are as yet sufficiently faithful as to be unquestionably valid, but they are increasingly doing without the iconostasis, and pews are becoming a frequent
