Pope creates division in order to combat division

The pope has "doubled down" on quashing the old rite of the Church, as a Yahoo article puts it. Pope Francis had already attacked the traditional Latin Mass and tried to limit its observance. Just a few days ago, he dealt it another blow by making it impossible to set up new Latin Masses and making it ever harder to celebrate sacraments according to the old rite.

The pope's alleged logic for this decision is to reduce division, but what he is doing is nothing but creating division. The old rite is perfectly valid and in fact has a much longer history than the Novus Ordo. Celebrating it would do absolutely nothing to hinder the celebration of the Novus Ordo. The only thing it really ends up doing is creating animosity with traditional Catholics.

I really have no idea how the pope thinks this will reduce division. There is no logic to what he is saying. Celebrating Mass in a particular way has nothing to do with division. The only thing that divides Catholics is whether or not people adhere to the teachings of the Church. If one group is fine with contraception, gay marriage, and disobeying legitimate authority in spiritual matters, and another group follows the Church, that's where there is division.

From my experience traditional Catholics are far more likely to follow Church teaching than people in the Novus Ordo. That's not to say that most Novus Ordo Catholics don't follow Church teaching as well, but adherence is highest among the traditional.

I have no idea what Pope Francis is trying to do to be honest. He's completely all over the place. I rarely ever hear anything about his defending Catholic teaching or explaining it. He seems to be focused on loopholes and bashing traditional Catholics. Very strange behavior. I'm sure traditional Catholics could potentially suffer from certain vices more than the more modern counterparts. Maybe they have a sense of superiority or other issues. But continuously antagonizing them will not solve any of that. Quite frankly, I see the potential issues with traditional Catholics to be much easier to remedy than the issues of those who oppose tradition.

Here's the article from Yahoo. It has errors and seems to be from a mainly non-Catholic point of view, but has some info:

https://news.yahoo.com/pope-doubles-down-quashing-old-110637870.html