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Traditionis Custodes at 30 Days: A Retrospective and a Prospective

As we approach the month’s mind marker of Traditionis Custodes, and with the benefit of literally hundreds of articles produced, including my own reflection here at CWR within 48 hours of the promulgation of the […]

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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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With local discernment of Pope Francis’ new restrictions on the ‘old Mass’ underway, Catholics reflect on their experience of the liturgy

In 1984, Colin Cain and his wife, Jane, were on the way home from a late-evening grocery run in South St. Paul when they noticed the light was on in the rectory of St. Augustine’s parish. They stopped, and together, mustered the resolve to knock on the door with a deeply felt request for the pastor: Would he consider offering Mass as it was celebrated prior to the Second Vatican Council?

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Traditionis Custodes: When “professional Catholic” squabbling spills over

For millions of Catholics around the world who find comfort in the traditional Latin Mass, the fights of the rectory and professional Catholic class have once again struck them at home.

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Francis could do what he did, but that’s not the crucial thing

Pope Francis has placed very significant restrictions on the saying of the old Mass, abrogating the much more permissive or generous policy of his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI. It is the pope’s call to make. I hope people will accept it or work within proper channels to modify the restrictions. Pope Francis himself could reverse

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Summorum Pontificum a restoration after a gross impoverishment

Though it has just been rejected by his successor, Benedict XVI’s motu propio Summorum Pontificum made many people happy when he issued it in 2007. Liturgical scholar Alcuin Reid celebrated the statement as a needed application of the real intentions of the Second Vatican Council. He had reason to say this. A monk of the

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Appealing to need for unity, pope restores limits on pre-Vatican II Mass

Saying he was acting for the good of the unity of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis has restored limits on the celebration of the Mass according to the Roman Missal in use before the Second Vatican Council, overturning or severely restricting permissions St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI had given to celebrate the so-called Tridentine-rite Mass.

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Twelve quick thoughts on Pope Francis dropping his long-expected bomb on the traditional latin Mass

1) In his motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, Pope Francis says St. John Paul II’s indults were only meant to heal the breach with Archbishop Lefebvre, not to have the traditional latin Mass as a continuing reality in the Church (my paraphrase). He quotes Pope Benedict XVI on “allowing” the TLM, which seems to buttress the point

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