Nicole Winfield hits the ball out of the park with this report. Certainly, Pope Leo must know that allowing the TLM in St. Peter’s brings TLM communities a great deal of hope that Pope Leo’s attitude and openness to this Mass be celebrated there, that he will ask bishops, including Cardinal Roche, to bend down and serve TLM communities rather than lord it over them and command that they leave their rigid psychology behind as well as the Mass that was given to them in the most humble and serving way possible by Pope Benedict XVI!
Time will tell, but I can’t believe Pope Leo doesn’t understand what His Holiness has wrought in terms of joy among normal, working and belieiving TLM communities. Pope Leo, we pray, will live what he preaches, that the Church should stoop down in a humble way to serve Catholics wanting to worship as the Church has worshipped for 1,700 years or more. The Church, clergy and laity, must be of humble service not commanding and controlling others.
By the way, The New York Times also has a very positive and long story on the TLM at St. Peter’s and how the young are attracted to this form of the Mass!
Here is a money byte from the AP story which I link below it:
Liturgy wars a long time brewing
The latest rounds in the liturgy wars date back to the Second Vatican Council, the 1960s meetings that modernized the church. Among the reforms was the celebration of the Mass in the vernacular, rather than Latin.
In the decades that followed, the old Latin Mass was still available but not widespread. In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI relaxed restrictions on celebrating it as part of his overall outreach to traditionalists still attached to the old rite.
In one of the most controversial acts of his pontificate, Francis in 2021 reversed Benedict’s 2007 reform and reinstated restrictions on celebrating the old Mass. Francis said its spread had become a source of division in the church and been exploited by Catholics opposed to Vatican II.
Rather than heal the divisions, though, Francis’ crackdown seemed to further drive a wedge.
“We are orphans,” said Christian Marquant, a French organizer of Saturday’s pilgrimage.
Leo’s election and vows to bring peace and healing
Leo, history’s first American pope, was elected with a broad consensus among cardinals and has said his aim is unity and reconciliation in the church. Many conservatives and traditionalists urged him to heal the liturgical divisions that spread over the Latin Mass, especially.
After Leo’s election, Marquant wrote Leo a letter on behalf of some 70 traditionalist groups asking, among other things, for permission to celebrate a Mass according to the ancient rite in St. Peter’s during the traditionalists’ annual pilgrimage to Rome.
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