Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco has endorsed an open letter urging Pope Francis not to impose new restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass, a move expected to draw pushback from the Vatican. The letter, posted online on 15th July, appeals to the Pope to maintain the older liturgical forms of the Catholic Eucharistic liturgy. Read more
Priests celebrating Mass should not be rigidly austere, mystical, overly slow, impassible and excessively finicky says Pope Francis in a new letter promoting the “rediscovery” of the Eucharistic liturgy. Neither should priests be exasperatingly creative, merely functional, rushed, sloppy, careless or superabundantly friendly. Francis letter is designed to protect the celebration of Mass from ideological Read more