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Vatican official: Pope to loosen restrictions on use of old Latin Mass

From an article of the same title by Victor Simpson of the Associated Press in the Detroit News:

Pope Benedict XVI has decided to loosen restrictions on use of the old Latin Mass, making a major concession to ultraconservatives who split with the Vatican to protest liberalizing reforms, a Vatican official said Wednesday. The pope's intent is to "help overcome the schism and help bring (the ultraconservatives) back to the church,"… The late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre founded the Swiss-based Society of St. Pius X in 1969 in opposition to the reforms of the 1962-65 Second Vatican Council, particularly allowing Mass to be celebrated in local languages instead of Latin. The Vatican excommunicated Lefebvre in 1988 after he consecrated four bishops without Rome's consent. Benedict has indicated he wants relations with the St. Pius X group to be normalized… The Tridentine Mass, the name of the old Latin Mass, can now only be celebrated with permission of the local bishop. In addition to the use of Latin, the priest faces the altar -- his back to the worshippers -- and there are no lay readers as in the modern Mass.

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The Society of Saint Pius X was founded in 1970 with full canonical approval of Rome. Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre was asked by many seminarians to start the Society. He did not want the job as he was retired. The issues that surround his later problems with Rome can in no way be summed up by mentioning a mass that is allowed to be celebrated in local languages. Whether intentional or not, you are short changing your readers... as what you have posted on your website/blog is not true.If you're going to post information about Lefebvre and the SSPX you must read. The best place to start is with the Apologia Pro Marcel Lefebvre by Michael Davies. Davies was an author well respected by nearly everyone on both sides of the Traditional argument. Some new books about Lefebvre include The Horn of the Unicorn by Dr. David Allen White and Marcel Lefebvre by Bishop Malleray.

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