ANALYSIS: The interpretive document considerably tightens already-sweeping restrictions on the traditional form of the Roman Rite.
By Edward Pentin, EWTN News, February 8, 2022
Edward Pentin Edward Pentin 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. …
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican document to bishops on how to implement certain restrictions on the traditional rites of the Mass and the sacraments has drawn concern from some canonists over the weight of its interpretation and authority to further limit use of the traditional Latin form of the Rome Rite.
Canonists speaking to the Register contend that although the recent document is meant to be merely an interpretation of certain passages of the apostolic letter Traditionis Custodes (Guardians of the Tradition), it moves beyond this papal document, an action that exceeds the powers of its author, Archbishop Arthur Roche, the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (CDW). …