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The Forbidden Mass: A Campaign for Tradition in Rome

One of the elements for which the Pontificate of Pope Francis will be remembered will certainly be for his very severe measures towards those who find in the Mass celebrated with the 1962 Missal a more worthy way of giving glory to God than in the new Mass. These measures to some, even in the progressive camp, seem out of proportion to the enormous problems facing the Church, such as the challenges of a culture that is not only no longer Christian, but is increasingly anti-Christian. Yet it seems that the real problem of the Church is the traditionalists.

I think that the recent intervention by card. Arthur Roche on the need to limit the celebration of that Mass because now there is a different theology was, after all, clarifying. Finally the true positions are outlined, without the sometimes sterile compromises of the past. It is clearly stated that the Church today is different from her past, whether we like it or not. If someone thinks that the Church must be a continuity in its tradition, rather than a break with it, obviously he is now in great difficulty because, contrary to what we have been told in recent decades about the continuity between the various forms of the rite Roman, we realize what an abysmal distance has been created between the traditional Mass and that of Paul VI. A distance that has now crystallized and that is very difficult to fill. Very often, due to the way in which it is celebrated, the Mass of Paul VI does not seem to be another form of the Roman rite, but almost seems to belong to another Christian confession. I recently happened to speak with a well-known and elderly liturgist, certainly not a traditionalist. We spoke of some protagonists of the liturgical reform that he described with great admiration. I asked him if these protagonists would be happy with how the reform was carried out and he very resolutely told me that this is absolutely not what was thought at the time. We spoke of some protagonists of the liturgical reform that he described with great admiration. I asked him if these protagonists would be happy with how the reform was carried out and he very resolutely told me that this is absolutely not what was thought at the time. We spoke of some protagonists of the liturgical reform that he described with great admiration. I asked him if these protagonists would be happy with how the reform was carried out and he very resolutely told me that this is absolutely not what was thought at the time.

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