Washington Archbishop Addresses Decision to Limit Traditional Latin Mass

[Michie]

Cardinal Gregory made the comments while speaking at Catholic University of America.

Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Washington, D.C., explained his reasoning for limiting the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass in his archdiocese, saying that allowing the old form of the Mass is an “exception” and that the post-Vatican II Mass should be “the dominant rite.”

Cardinal Gregory’s comments on the Traditional Latin Mass, also known as the Tridentine Mass, were given in response to a student’s question at The Catholic University of America’s Presidential Speaker Series on Thursday night. The Catholic student had asked how he could respond to his peers in “a loving and opening way” as to why the Traditional Latin Mass could not be offered on campus.

Cardinal Gregory answered by saying that the Traditional Latin Mass is “not forbidden, but it’s limited.”

WATCH: Asked why CUA students have no access to TLM on campus, +Wilton Gregory says “Tradition dies a slow, sometimes bloody death”, acts like Summorum PontifIcum never happened, & adds that #PopeFrancis “is right to say (through #TraditionisCustodes) deal with the priests.”(1/4) pic.twitter.com/VlDYv2FDTc

— Diane Montagna (@dianemontagna) December 8, 2023

“When Pope Paul VI instituted the new ritual tradition, he made an exception for older priests … who, it would have been just too much for them, they had celebrated the Tridentine Mass for 60 years, he made an exception for them. But it was his desire, his intent, to say that when that generation goes that everyone will be in the new Mass.”

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https://www.ncregister.com/cna/washington-archbishop-addresses-decision-to-limit-traditional-latin-mass

 

[RileyG]

The TLM must be preserved and it is beautiful. All rites of the Church should be celebrated and respected IMO.

 

[fide]

There is far too much room made for self-love in the celebrant, which encourages it in the assembly. Disordered, tenacious self-love is a deadly enemy of our sanctification. We are foolish to allow it - even welcome and encourage it - in our acts of divine worship!! But we do; such is the modern world; such bears the fruit of clericalism among clergy, tepidity and duplicity among the laity. God help us survive the barren famine of the desert.