Two Weeks After Pope Francis’s Latin Mass Restrictions, US Bishops Continue to Respond| National Catholic Register

Two weeks after Pope Francis issued his motu proprio restricting the use of traditional liturgies, bishops throughout the United States have continued to address the impact the letter will have on their respective dioceses. Many bishops, such as Bishop Michael Fisher of Buffalo, have chosen to grant their priests temporary permission to continue celebrating the traditional Latin Mass while they themselves take time to study the document, Traditiones Custodes. “At this time, I grant temporary permission for those priests competent in celebrating the Eucharist according to the 1962 Missal to continue to do so at the times and places that, as of July 16, 2021, have publicly scheduled these Masses,” Bishop Fisher wrote in a July 21 statement.

Two Weeks After Pope Francis’s Latin Mass Restrictions, US Bishops Continue to Respond| National Catholic Register