Is the title of this article accurate? Yep, pretty much. I wonder if this means the FSSP will no longer be able to staff parish churches? The document would seem to limit the old Mass to special oratories and religious houses. It specifically says the Missal of 1962 cannot be celebrated in parochial or parish churches. I wonder what this will mean in the Archdiocese of Washington? It is currently offered in a number of our parish churches.
The Pope explains:
“Ever more plain in the words and attitudes of many is the close connection between the choice of celebrations according to the liturgical books prior to Vatican Council II and the rejection of the Church and her institutions in the name of what is called the “true Church.” One is dealing here with comportment that contradicts communion and nurtures the divisive tendency — ‘I belong to Paul; I belong instead to Apollo; I belong to Cephas; I belong to Christ’ — against which the Apostle Paul so vigorously reacted (1 Cor 1:12-13). In defense of the unity of the Body of Christ, I am constrained to revoke the faculty granted by my Predecessors.”
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All part of a devious plot “The smoke of satan has entered the Holy Place.