Summorum Pontificum

The One Thread By Which the Council Hangs: a Response to Cavadini, Healy, and Weinandy

01/23/2023 at 9:52 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Dom Alcuin Reid, One Peter Five, January 19, 2023 “Don’t touch that! If you do, everything will collapse!” The warning is clear enough. Any sensible person would rapidly desist, lest their one seemingly minor act bring everything crashing down, undoing the work of many days, weeks,... read more

Cardinal Zen: ‘I Agree with Archbishop Gänswein on Traditionis Custodes’

01/23/2023 at 8:49 AM By Kevin Edward White
In an interview with an Italian newspaper, the Chinese cardinal criticized what he called ‘tendentious generalizations’ in Pope Francis’ 2021 decree restricting the traditional liturgy. By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, January 19, 2023 VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Joseph Zen... read more

Benedict XVI and Tradition: An Analysis of His Approach to the Traditional Liturgy

01/09/2023 at 4:41 PM By Kevin Edward White
Father Claude Barthe, an expert author on traditional liturgy, reflects on the late pope's motu proprio, ‘Summorum Pontificum’ calling the text ‘the most important of the pontificate.’ By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, January 9, 2023 VATICAN CITY — One of Benedict... read more

Benedict XVI—Priest, Prefect, Pope, Rest In Peace

12/31/2022 at 2:31 PM By Kevin Edward White
With Pope Emeritus’ death, the Catholic Church loses one of the greatest minds in its 2,000-year history. VATICAN CITY — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has died at the age of 95. The Vatican made the announcement of his death at 10.30 am Rome time on Dec. 31 in a short statement translated... read more

Are there any big changes in the authoritative version of the new Vatican constitution?

04/05/2022 at 10:50 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Andrea Gagliarducci, Catholic News Agency, April 4, 2022 In the world of the Vatican, the editio typica of a document is critically important. It is the standard edition of a text that serves as a reference for translations into other languages. For this reason, the editio typica of... read more

TRADITIONIS CUSTODES: A Weapon of Mass Destruction

11/29/2021 at 4:24 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Diane Montagna, Remnant, November 29, 2021 In a recent interview on Swiss television, Archbishop Arthur Roche, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, and a key figure in the implementation of Pope Francis’s apostolic letter restricting the... read more

Traditionis custodes: Serpents over Fish

07/17/2021 at 8:05 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Eric Sammons, Crisis, July 6, 2021 The bomb has been dropped. Today Pope Francis issued his motu proprio Traditionis custodes severely restricting the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass. In effect, it wipes out Pope Benedict’s 14-year-old motu proprio, Summorum... read more

What Draws Parishioners to the Traditional Latin Mass?

07/16/2021 at 11:02 AM By Kevin Edward White
Several advocates of the extraordinary form of Mass discuss the good fruits they say come from its continued liturgical practice. By Judy Roberts, National Catholic Register, July 15, 2021 As someone who has attended the Traditional Latin Mass most of his life, 22-year-old Robert Keller... read more

BREAKING: Pope Francis issues restrictions on extraordinary form Masses in new motu proprio

07/16/2021 at 9:54 AM By Kevin Edward White
By CNA Staff, July 8, 2021 Pope Francis issued a motu proprio on Friday restricting Masses celebrated in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite. In the motu proprio, issued July 16, the pope made sweeping changes to his predecessor Benedict XVI’s 2007 apostolic letter Summorum... read more

Of McCarrick, Jesuits, and Summorum Pontificum

06/19/2021 at 10:53 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Dr. Lee Fratantuono, One Peter Five, June 9, 2021 It was a Saturday afternoon in summer. It was bright and sunny. It was a “Saturday vigil” Mass for some green Sunday or other. I was twelve. The celebrant was the diocesan bishop, Theodore McCarrick. He was doing a parish visit. My... read more

Pope Francis Sets His Sights on the Latin Mass

06/04/2021 at 6:13 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Eric Sammons, Crisis, June 4, 2021 The rumors appear to be true: Pope Francis is planning to rescind Summorum Pontificum, Pope Benedict’s 2007 motu proprio liberalizing the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass (TLM), which Benedict dubbed the “Extraordinary Form” of the... read more

Cardinal Burke Says Vatican’s Instruction on Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica Should Be Rescinded

03/14/2021 at 11:18 PM By Kevin Edward White

Pope Francis surveys bishops worldwide on Traditional Latin Mass

04/27/2020 at 12:21 AM By Kevin Edward White

Italian Bishops Take Aim at Summorum Pontificum, Want Traditional Mass Abrogated

11/21/2018 at 4:29 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

An Open Letter to Pope Francis from a ‘Bold’ Youth

03/30/2018 at 7:33 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Cardinal Sarah urges Church to embrace young traditionalists

09/15/2017 at 10:50 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

“IRREVERSIBLE”? UPDATED

08/25/2017 at 8:48 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Bishop Schneider: “Personally Very Sad” About Rome’s Letter to the SSPX — “They Wouldn’t Treat the Orthodox Like This”

08/15/2017 at 9:45 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

Vatican rumblings: Pope Francis aiming to end Latin Mass permission

07/27/2017 at 8:48 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

The Chartres Pilgrimage, Fatima, the 10th Anniversary of the Motu proprio, the Dubia: an interview with Cardinal Burke

06/26/2017 at 9:37 AM By Mary Anne Hackett