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The Pope, Latin Mass and the future

What now for the Traditional Latin Mass? Has Pope Francis permanently undermined the Traditional Latin Mass. TLM was the standard liturgy beginning with the Council of Trent until the Second Vatican Council. Unlike his predecessor, Benedict XVI – who lifted restrictions on the Mass – Pope Francis has issued two decrees reversing his predecessor’s edicts

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A Divisive Approach to Liturgical “Unity”

Stephen P. White: To say you’ve no “attachment” to the TLM is to say you’ve no attachment to an ancestor you never met. True but impious.

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Vatican answers questions on limits regarding pre-Vatican II Mass

Responding to 11 questions it said had been raised about Pope Francis’ document restricting celebrations of the pre-Vatican II Mass, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments offered a few concessions to bishops but insisted the entire Latin-rite Catholic Church must move toward celebrating only one form of the Mass and sacraments.

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Archbishop Hebda expects task force recommendations soon on traditional Latin Mass

The task force convened to study Pope Francis’ recent directive about celebrating what until just recently the Church had called the “extraordinary form” of the Mass — commonly called “the traditional Latin Mass” — is getting close to making recommendations, Archbishop Bernard Hebda said.

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A Cardinal and Bishop Who Get It

Fr. Gerald E. Murray: A bishop who facilitates the spiritual preferences of faithful Catholics understands his role as shepherd.

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Threats to the Extraordinary Form

Pope Benedict lived up to his title of pontifex, or bridge-builder, when he allowed the wider use of the Tridentine rite – more properly the Extraordinary Form of the Mass – in the Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum of 2007. There has been 13 years for this concession to advance its stated aim: to foster reconciliation

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Popes Come and Go

David Warren: Vatican II’s liturgical changes were actually a deviation from the Council itself. Pope Francis has made the deviant normal.

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What Benedict XVI thought about liturgical change

A week after Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI, liturgical scholar Dom Alcuin Reid predicts what he will do about the liturgy. A monk of the Monastere Saint-Benoit in Frejus-Toulon, France, his book The Organic Development of the Liturgy carried a preface by then-cardinal Ratzinger. His 2007 article Summorum Pontificum a restoration after a gross impoverishment

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For now, worship as usual for local Latin Massgoing Catholics as new restrictions evaluated

Catholics in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis who regularly attend Mass in the “extraordinary form” of the liturgy can expect to find their Masses unchanged this weekend, as local Church leaders take time to understand and implement a July 16 order from Pope Francis to place greater oversight on the use of that form of the Mass.

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