FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images ROME — U.S. Cardinal Raymond Burke has expressed his “profound sorrow” over Pope Francis’s recent letter drastically restricting the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass.
On July 16, The pope issued an apostolic letter titled Traditionis Custodes (“Guardians of Tradition”) banning the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass in Catholic parishes and eliminating existing accommodations to priests who wish to use the extraordinary form of the Catholic liturgy.
Those who are attached to the Traditional Latin Mass, sometimes called the Tridentine Mass, “are deeply disheartened by the severity of the discipline” imposed by Pope Francis in his letter and “offended by the language it employs to describe them, their attitudes and their conduct,” Cardinal Burke states in an essay published online July 22.
“It is apparent from the severity of the document,” states Burke, a canon lawyer and the former head of the Vatican’s supreme court, that Pope Francis […]
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