Vatican says leaked documents were only part of information Pope Francis used to restrict Latin Mass
- The debate over the Latin Mass is intensifying with the leak of documents that challenge Pope Francis' restrictions on it.
- The leaked documents indicate that a majority of bishops surveyed in 2020 were satisfied with the Latin Mass and cautioned that restrictions would 'do more harm than good.'
- These findings suggest that Pope Francis' decision was influenced by only a minority of bishops and contradicted advice from the overseeing dicastery.
- The Vatican's assessment reveals that changing the status of the Latin Mass could 'seriously damage the life of the Church' and revive previous tensions.
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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."
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