{"id":301385,"date":"2021-07-17T05:06:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T02:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/pope-francis-reverses-benedict-reimposes-restrictions-on-latin-mass\/"},"modified":"2021-07-17T05:06:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T02:06:08","slug":"pope-francis-reverses-benedict-reimposes-restrictions-on-latin-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pope-francis-reverses-benedict-reimposes-restrictions-on-latin-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"#Pope Francis reverses Benedict, reimposes restrictions on Latin Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Pope Francis reverses Benedict, reimposes restrictions on Latin Mass<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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ROME \u2014 Pope Francis cracked down Friday on the spread of the old Latin Mass, reversing one of Pope Benedict XVI\u2019s signature decisions in a major challenge to traditionalist Catholics who immedia<\/a>tely decried it as an attack on them and the ancient liturgy.<\/p>\n

Francis reimposed restrictions on celebrating the Latin Mass that Benedict relaxed in 2007, and went further to limit its use. The pontiff said he was taking action because Benedict\u2019s reform had become a source of division in the church and been exploited by Catholics opposed to the Second Vatican Council, the 1960s meetings that modernized the church and its liturgy.<\/p>\n

Critics said they had never before witnessed a pope so thoroughly reversing his predecessor. That the reversal concerned something so fundamental as the liturgy, while Benedict is still alive and living in the Vatican as a retired pope, only amplified the extraordinary nature of Francis\u2019 move, which will surely result in more right-wing hostility directed at him.<\/p>\n

Francis, 84, issued a new law requiring individual bishops to app<\/a>rove celebrations of the old Mass, also called the Tridentine Mass, and requiring newly ordained priests to receive explicit permission to celebrate it from their bishops, in consultation with the Vatican.<\/p>\n

Under the new law, bishops must also determine if the current groups of faithful attached to the old Mass accept Vatican II, which allowed for Mass to be celebrated in the vernacular rather than Latin. These groups cannot use regular churches; instead, bishops must find alternate locations for them without creating new parishes.<\/p>\n

In addition, Francis said bishops are no longer allowed to authorize the formation of any new pro-Latin Mass groups in their dioceses.<\/p>\n

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Pope Francis holds the chalice as he celebrates the Eucharist during Mass as part of World Youth Day at St. Peter\u2019s Basilica.<\/figcaption>
Vincenzo Pinto\/Pool via Reuters\/File Photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Francis said he was taking action to promote unity and heal divisions within the church that had grown since Benedict\u2019s 2007 document, Summorum Pontificum. He said he based his decision on a 2020 Vatican survey of all the world\u2019s bishops, whose \u201cresponses reveal a situation that preoccupies and saddens me, and persuades me of the need to intervene.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pope\u2019s rollback immediately\u00a0created an uproar among traditionalists\u00a0<\/a>already opposed to Francis\u2019 more progressive bent and nostalgic for Benedict\u2019s doctrinaire papacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an extremely disappointing document which entirely undoes the legal provisions,\u201d of Benedict\u2019s 2007 document, said Joseph Shaw, chairman of the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales.<\/p>\n

While Latin celebrations can continue, \u201cthe presumption is consistently against them: bishops are being invited to close them down,\u201d Shaw said, adding that the requirement for Latin Masses to be held outside a parish was \u201cunworkable.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Traditionalists have criticized the decision by Pope Francis. <\/figcaption>
IPA\/Sipa USA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThis is an extraordinary rejection of the hard work for the church and the loyalty to the hierarchy which has characterized the movement for the Traditional Mass for many years, which I fear will foster a sense of alienation among those attached to the church\u2019s ancient liturgy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Benedict had issued his document in 2007 to reach out to a breakaway, schismatic group that celebrates the Latin Mass, the Society of St. Pius X, and which had split from Rome over the modernizing reforms of Vatican II.<\/p>\n

But Francis said Benedict\u2019s effort to foster unity had essentially backfired.<\/p>\n

The opportunity offered by Benedict, the pope said in a letter to bishops accompanying the new law, was instead \u201cexploited to widen the gaps, reinforce the divergences, and encourage disagreements that injure the Church, block her path, and expose her to the peril of division.\u201d<\/p>\n

Francis said he was \u201csaddened\u201d that the use of the old Mass was accompanied by a rejection of Vatican II itself \u201cwith unfounded and unsustainable assertions that it betrayed the Tradition and the \u2018true Church.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Christopher Bellitto, professor of church history at Kean University, said Francis was right to intervene, noting that Benedict\u2019s original decision had had a slew of unintended consequences that not only created internal divisions but temporarily roiled relations with Jews.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrancis hits it right on the head with his observation that Benedict\u2019s 2007 loosening of regulations against the Latin rite allowed others to use it for division,\u201d he said. \u201cThe blowback proves his point.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pope Francis celebrates a Chrism Mass inside St. Peter\u2019s Basilica at the Vatican.<\/figcaption>
Andrew Medichini\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The blowback was indeed fierce, though it\u2019s also likely that many will simply ignore Francis\u2019 decree and continue on as before with sympathetic bishops. Some of these traditionalists and Catholics already were among Francis\u2019 fiercest critics,\u00a0with some accusing him of heresy\u00a0<\/a>for having opened the door to letting divorced and civilly remarried Catholics receive Communion.<\/p>\n

Rorate Caeli, a popular traditionalist blog run out of the U.S., said Francis\u2019 \u201cattack\u201d was the strongest rebuke of a pope against his predecessors in living memory.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrancis HATES US. Francis HATES Tradition. Francis HATES all that is good and beautiful,\u201d the group tweeted. But it concluded: \u201cFRANCIS WILL DIE, THE LATIN MASS WILL LIVE FOREVER.\u201d<\/p>\n

Messa in Latino, an Italian traditionalist blog, was also blistering in its criticism.<\/p>\n

\u201cMercy always and only for sinners (who are not asked to repent) but no mercy for those few traditional Catholics,\u201d the blog said Friday.<\/p>\n

For years, though, Francis has made known his distaste of the old liturgy, privately labeling its adherents self-referential naval-gazers who are out of touch with the needs of the church. He has\u00a0cracked down on religious orders<\/a>\u00a0that celebrated the old Mass exclusively and frequently decried the \u201crigidity\u201d of tradition-minded priests who prioritize rules over pastoral accompanime<\/a>nt.<\/p>\n

Traditionalists have insisted that the old liturgy was never abrogated and that Benedict\u2019s 2007 reform had allowed it to flourish.<\/p>\n

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Benedict had made the decision in an effort for unity with Society of St. Pius X.<\/figcaption>
Franco Origlia\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They point to the growth of traditionalist parishes, often frequented by young, large families, as well as new religious orders that celebrate the old liturgy. The Latin Mass Society claims the number of traditional Masses celebrated each Sunday in England and Wales had more than doubled since 2007, from 20 to 46.<\/p>\n

But for many, the writing was on the wall\u00a0as soon as Francis stepped out onto the loggia<\/a>\u00a0of St. Peter\u2019s Basilica after his 2013 election without the ermine-trimmed red velvet cape that was preferred by Benedict and is a symbol of the pre-Vatican II church.<\/p>\n

The restrictions went into immediate effect with its publication in Friday\u2019s official Vatican news<\/a>paper, L\u2019Osservatore Romano.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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