WHILE SOME RIGID PRELATES, AS POPE FRANCIS WOULD DERIDE THEM, ARE INTO THE CANCEL CULTURE CONCERNING THE TLM IN THEIR DIOCESES, OTHER VERY HIGH AND FLEXIBLE PRELATES, LIKE POPE LEO XIV, IS ALLOWING THE TLM AT ST. PETER’S BASILICA AND OTHER PLACES: LET US THANK GOD FOR FLEXIBILITY!

This Saturday, the very high and flexible prelate, Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke will celebrate the Solemn Sung High Pontifical Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica, Altar of the Chair. It is surely to be glorious!

Another high and flexible prelate-Cardinal, not known for being rigid in any way, progressive or conservative, Matteo Cardinal Zuppi will celebrate the pre-Vatican II version of Pontifical Vespers at the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Rome.

The following I copy and paste from Edward Pentin’s article in the National Catholic Register:

One of the Assistant Papal Master of Ceremonies described the most flexible Pope Leo XIV in this way: 

The decision to allow the Mass to go ahead appears to have come from the top. “Clearly, [it was] because the Pope said: ‘Let them do it,’” Msgr. Marco Agostini, a papal master of ceremonies and a leading advocate of the traditional Mass in Rome, told The Washington Post Oct. 19.

At noon on Nov. 1, the Solemnity of All Saints, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone will celebrate a solemn pontifical Mass — the most complete and elaborate form of the traditional Mass — at Star of the Sea Parish in San Francisco. 

The following day, at 5 p.m. on the feast of All Souls, the prefect emeritus of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, will celebrate a pontifical Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes parish church in Philadelphia.

Lastly, on Nov. 21, the prefect emeritus of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Cardinal Robert Sarah, will celebrate pontifical vespers at the Cathedral-Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia.

Time of Tensions 

The pontifical liturgies come at a time when Pope Leo XIV must decide whether to continue restricting some liturgies in the traditional Roman Rite in accordance with Traditionis Custodes or allow the freedom to celebrate them more in accordance with Pope Benedict XVI’s apostolic letter Summorum Pontificum. 

The credibility of Traditionis Custodes was severely undermined over the summer when it emerged that the original justification for implementing its restrictions had been based on misrepresented data about bishops’ opinions. 

How the Pope might decide on the issue remains unclear, although curial figures such as Cardinal Kurt Koch of Switzerland, the president of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, said in August it would “certainly be desirable to open the now-closed door more again.” 

Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, a former president of the Italian bishops’ conference, also indicated that he favored a relaxation of the restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass, saying he saw “neither risks nor dangers if things are done peacefully and with everyone’s goodwill.”

Currently, national bishops’ conferences and local ordinaries remain the decisive authorities, and some continue to execute new restrictions, especially in the United States. “This seems to be something unique to America,” Shaw toldRaymond Arroyo on EWTN’s The World Over program Oct. 16. “I haven’t heard about this coming from Italy; France; or England, where I am. In fact, the bishops in England seem more relaxed than they were six months ago about the traditional Mass, so this is a real puzzle.” 

In recent months, (the super rigid and cruel prelates of) the dioceses of Charlotte, North Carolina; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Detroit have suppressed the traditional liturgy, resulting in considerable backlash from the faithful.