Pope To Restore Traditional Latin Mass
Thursday June 28, 2007
Pope Benedict XVI
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The ARLT (Association foR Latin Teaching) blog posted that Pope Benedict XVI is going to mend a schism in the Roman Catholic Church by lifting the excommunication of renegades who opposed the removal of the Latin Mass by the Second Vatican Council.Today, almost two years later it seems the rift will be completed soon. The About.com Guide to Catholicism, Scott Richert, says
- The Pro-Latin Pontiff and the Latin Mass
The Press Office of the Holy See announced on Thursday, June 28, 2007, that Pope Benedict XVI will issue, within a few days, a motu proprio restoring the Traditional Latin Mass, celebrated in Latin Rite Catholic churches until 1969, as one of two approved forms of the Mass. The Mass of Pope Paul VI, commonly known as the Novus Ordo and currently celebrated throughout the world, will be the "ordinary" form; the Traditional Latin Mass, said according to the version of the Roman Missal promulgated by Blessed Pope John XXIII in 1962, will be the "extraordinary" form.
- Pope To Restore Traditional Latin Mass
Comments
Good news, although it seems to be a little too late to alter a tendency of
decline in church attendance.