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Imagine Liturgical Peace, by Mark Brumley – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Traditional Latin Mass at the seminary of the Institute of Christ the King, Italy. ICKSP.  YouTube screenshot

By Mark Brumley, Catholic World Report, June 9, 2025

Mark Brumley is president and CEO of Ignatius Press.

(Editor’s note: This essay was published originally on the “What We Need Now” site and is republished here with kind permission.)

 

It seems time to revisit Pope Benedict’s caution about the Church not contributing to divisions and to ask whether leadership in recent years has sometimes added to unhelpful antagonism.

Surprise! The Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) has returned as a hot-button issue, if it ever really left. Singapore’s Cardinal William Goh Seng Chye hopes restrictions on the TLM will be dropped, The Catholic Herald reports. In 2021, Pope Francis severely restricted the TLM, following Pope Benedict XVI’s approval of greater freedom for the older form of worship back now some eighteen years ago.

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, on X, “seconded” Cardinal Goh’s comments, writing that “lifting the restrictions on the use of the 1962 Missal would be grand, healing, and unifying.” He also stressed how doing so could strengthen unity and foster love. …

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