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By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register,
Edward Pentin is the Register’s Senior Contributor and EWTN News Vatican Analyst. He began reporting on the Pope and the Vatican with Vatican Radio before moving on to become the Rome correspondent for EWTN’s National Catholic Register. …
Several options are available to the Holy Father, who has pledged to heal divisions and build bridges within the Church.
VATICAN CITY — A significant early challenge for Pope Leo XIV will be how he chooses to handle the restrictions that Pope Francis placed on the traditional Latin Mass (TLM).
Since Pope Francis issued his apostolic letter Traditionis Custodes (Guardians of Tradition) in July 2021, the freedom to celebrate the pre-1970 Mass has been curtailed — severely in some cases — with the long-term aim of allowing only the new Mass.
Cardinals, bishops, priests and many of the laity, including some who do not attend the TLM, have strenuously opposed the restrictions, seeing the clampdown as callous, unjust and needlessly divisive rather than unifying.
After Pope Benedict XVI’s 2007 apostolic letter Summorum Pontificum (Of the Supreme Pontiffs), any priest with a stable group of faithful attached to the old form of the Roman Rite was free to celebrate it, without requiring special permission from his bishop. But Pope Francis’ 2021 decree changed that radically, abrogating Summorum Pontificum, mandating priests to obtain their bishop’s permission and, since 2023, obliging bishops to obtain express approval from the Vatican to allow the TLM in their dioceses. …
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