US EditionVatican says leaked documents were only part of information Pope Francis used to restrict Latin Mass
- The debate over the Latin Mass is intensifying with the leak of documents that challenge Pope Francis' restrictions on it.
- The leaked documents indicate that a majority of bishops surveyed in 2020 were satisfied with the Latin Mass and cautioned that restrictions would 'do more harm than good.'
- These findings suggest that Pope Francis' decision was influenced by only a minority of bishops and contradicted advice from the overseeing dicastery.
- The Vatican's assessment reveals that changing the status of the Latin Mass could 'seriously damage the life of the Church' and revive previous tensions.
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Catholic News AgencyVatican downplays leaked documents on Latin Mass
The Confiteor at a Traditional Latin Mass. / Credit: James Bradley, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Vatican City, Jul 3, 2025 / 09:15 am (CNA). A Vatican spokesman has played down the significance of recently leaked Vatican documents that appe... [...]
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Northwest CatholicVatican says documents on Latin Mass assessment ‘incomplete’
Without verifying their authenticity, the director of the Holy See Press Office said that a series of documents purporting to reveal bishops' input into Pope Francis' decision to restrict celebrations of the pre-Vatican II Latin Mass are "incomplete."
Boston Auxiliary Bishop Says He ‘Wept’ First Time After Celebrating Traditional Latin Mass
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Vatican spokesman: ‘Traditionis custodes’ leak ‘very partial’
A Vatican spokesman argued Thursday that leaked documents suggesting the world’s bishops did not favor a clampdown on the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite when they were surveyed in 2020 were “very partial and incomplete.”Holy See press office director Matteo Bruni at a July 3, 2025, Vatican press conference. Credit: Edgar Beltrán/Pillar Media.At a July 3 Vatican press conference, Archbishop Vittorio Francesco Viola, the secretary of the Dic…
Vatican Report Reveals Most Bishops Did Not Want Pope Francis’ Latin Mass Crackdown - LewRockwell
Most bishops who responded to a Vatican questionnaire about restricting the Latin Mass said reversing Pope Benedict XVI’s liberation of the traditional rite ‘would cause more harm than good.’ Journalist Diane Montagna revealed in a July 1 report that the Vatican’s overall assessment of the consultation of bishops, which was believed to have prompted Pope Francis to implement the 2021 motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, stated that the majority of…
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