Vatican says leaked documents were only part of information Pope Francis used to restrict Latin Mass

Vatican downplays leaked documents on Latin Mass

The Confiteor at a Traditional Latin Mass. / Credit: James Bradley, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Vatican City, Jul 3, 2025 / 09:15 am (CNA). A Vatican spokesman has played down the significance of recently leaked Vatican documents that appe... [...]

Vatican says documents on Latin Mass assessment ‘incomplete’

Without verifying their authenticity, the director of the Holy See Press Office said that a series of documents purporting to reveal bishops' input into Pope Francis' decision to restrict celebrations of the pre-Vatican II Latin Mass are "incomplete."

Detroit Catholics pray for end to Latin Mass crackdown

The prayerful Saturday protest follows a decision by Archbishop Edward Weisenburger to ban the Latin Mass at all but four churches in the archdiocese.

Boston Auxiliary Bishop Says He ‘Wept’ First Time After Celebrating Traditional Latin Mass

PIGAMA Pilgrimage on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Summorum Pontificum, celebration of the traditional Latin Mass inside St. Peter's Basilica. Bishop Robert Reed’s social-media post welcomed by Latin Massgoers.

Vatican spokesman: ‘Traditionis custodes’ leak ‘very partial’

A Vatican spokesman argued Thursday that leaked documents suggesting the world’s bishops did not favor a clampdown on the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite when they were surveyed in 2020 were “very partial and incomplete.”Holy See press office director Matteo Bruni at a July 3, 2025, Vatican press conference. Credit: Edgar Beltrán/Pillar Media.At a July 3 Vatican press conference, Archbishop Vittorio Francesco Viola, the secretary of the Dic…

Vatican Report Reveals Most Bishops Did Not Want Pope Francis’ Latin Mass Crackdown - LewRockwell

Most bishops who responded to a Vatican questionnaire about restricting the Latin Mass said reversing Pope Benedict XVI’s liberation of the traditional rite ‘would cause more harm than good.’ Journalist Diane Montagna revealed in a July 1 report that the Vatican’s overall assessment of the consultation of bishops, which was believed to have prompted Pope Francis to implement the 2021 motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, stated that the majority of…