The big uproar on social media and elsewhere regarding the latest actions of Pope Francis in connection with the Traditional Latin Mass is subsiding. I have been asked to weigh in, and I do so in summary form as I believe less is more.
Let’s summarize. Pope Francis issued a “Letter of the Holy Father Francis to the Bishops of the Whole World That Accompanies the Apostolic Letter Motu Proprio Data `Traditionis Custodes’” along with “Traditionis Custodes” (TC) on July 16, 2021. Francis in his letter noted that many people, including the young, had been drawn to the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) over the years especially since Benedict XVI issued “Summorum Pontificum” (SP) in July, 2007. Francis is apparently motivated, as he says in his Letter, by a fear that the TLM is the source of unity in opposing the validity of the Vatican II Council. He writes
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