I don’t know if this is the reason or not, but when the Basilica was dedicated in 324 AD., the Council of Nicaea that began the development of the Nicene Creed had not occurred, that would happen a few months later in 325 AD.
However, the form of the Nicene Creed was not finalized until 381 AD at the Council of Constantinople.
Also, I know that in the current Roman Missal, the option to use the Apostles’ Creed is prescribed. Who makes that choice????? Of course, the priest does. The plethora of choices in the Roman Missal all hinge on the priest’s likes and dislikes, whims and fancies. Whose whim or fancy was it to use the Apostles’ Creed at Sunday’s Papal Mass for the Dedication of Saint John the Lateran? Whoever makes these choices, normally a cleric, isn’t that clericalism on steroids?
I know that in Canada on Sundays, the norm is to recite the Apostles’ Creed not the Nicene Creed and that has been the case since Vatican II in the 1960’s. I presume that decision was made by Canada’s Conference of Bishops?
You can see the booklet for Pope Leo’s Sunday Mass at the Lateran HERE.
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In the NO The priest as dictator of the liturgy
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