Pope Francis on Friday canceled the decision by two predecessors and preached the restrictions on the old Latin-style masses favored by Roman Catholics traditionalists, saying it was exploited to divide the Church.
The conservative group reacted with anxiety and anger against the latest episodes of what some people carried out by the “Liturgical War” of the Church.
Some conservatives in the church, especially in the United States and several European countries have used the Latin masses as a cry of battle in their general battle against the Reform of the Second Vatican 1962-1965, which includes the introduction of mass in vernacular.
Before the Board, the Catholic mass was a complicated ritual led in Latin by a priest with his back to the church.
Vatican II reduces formality and has a priest to face the believers to pray in their local language.
Traditionalists reject music music and new style guitar music.
Many have longed for the mystery and admiration of the Latin ritual and the centuries of Gregorian songs that go with him.
The two former Benedict Pope and Pope John Paul have relaxed restrictions on the Latin masses in the olive branch to conservatives, especially in an effort to heal the break with the traditional community of St Pius X, whose enrolled Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre was ostracized in 1988.
In 2007 Benedict decided that every Roman Catholic priest could celebrate the old Latin mass without a specific permission of the bishop or from the Vatican which was previously needed.
Among other limits, Francis’s decree issued on Friday returned the obligation and said that no new group or parish that was exclusively devoted to the old liturgy can be established.
In a letter of explanation to the bishops, Francis said the will and good relief shown by his predecessors had been “exploited to expand the gap, strengthen differences, and encourage disagreements that hurt the church, blocking the road, and exposing the division.” Francis said several priests insisted only using the old Latin mass to promote “unfounded and unsustainable statements” that the second Vatican Board had “betrayed tradition and ‘true church’.
Board documents open the church to the modern world, give a greater role to make ordinary people and start dialogue with other religions, especially Judaism.
While the former Pope Benedict made the board change requirements to celebrate the old Latin mass, many conservatives who prefer old liturgicals also openly rejected Board reform.
The taste of the Caeli traditionalist blog said the whale’s decision was a “vandalism acting carried out by Francis” against its predecessor Benedict.
In a comment, the Latin mass community of England and Wales called it a “big disappointment” and challenged Francis supporters “to produce clear evidence that (Latin mass) has damaged the unity of the church.”
Pope Francis updated the sidewalk on the Latin mass in rejection to conservative
