Bishop Schneider Calls on Pope Leo to ‘Free the Latin Mass’, by Emily Mangiaracina

By Emily Mangiaracina, LifeSite News (Complicit Clergy), July 16, 2025

Bishop Athanasius Schneider has decried the suppression of Traditional Latin Masses (TLM) around the world as an “injustice” and called upon Pope Leo XIV to “free” the TLM.

In a Sunday interview with the bishop, Christopher Wendt of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima brought up the TLM crackdown prompted by Pope Francis’ document Traditionis Custodes, which triggered a cascade of TLM closures continuing even into the papacy of Leo XIV.

“It is an injustice. We must publicly say this,” said Bishop Schneider, the auxiliary of the Diocese of Astana in Kazakhstan. He pointed out that the TLM suppression is particularly unjust during a time when, as under Francis, the top levels of the Church declare the importance of listening to all the lay faithful and accepting their “proposals and desires,” as he noted.

“But only one category is punished, and marginalized. These are the faithful priests who only wish to pray and to celebrate Mass, to assist Mass, and it was done during… almost a millennium, and by the saints,” he said.

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