Shortly after returning from his Africa trip (January 31–February 5, 2023), where he celebrated a Zaire rite Mass to the sound of drums and dances, Pope Francis hastened to take another step to hinder even further the celebration and attendance of the traditional Latin Mass. On February 20, Arthur Cardinal Roche, Prefect … Read more
On his flight back to Rome after his trip to Cyprus and Greece last December 6, responding to a question from journalists about the resignation of the Archbishop of Paris, Michel Aupetit, Pope Francis explained: “I accepted Aupetit’s resignation, not on the altar of truth, but on the altar of hypocrisy. This is … Read more
An Unjust Law Does Not Oblige Lack of sacrality and reverential worship in the “New Mass” has reached the unimaginable. Here are a few examples from among many that could be given: at the end of Mass, a fully vested archbishop rides a bicycle around his cathedral; priests celebrate clown Masses, while … Read more
With the stroke of a pen, Pope Francis has taken concrete steps to abolish in practice the Roman Rite of the Holy Mass. Substantially in use since Saint Damasus, at the end of the fourth century, and with additions by Saint Gregory the Great at the end of the sixth, the 1962 … Read more