On Friday, July 16, in a swift crackdown, effective immediately, Pope Francis severely restricted the resurgent traditional Latin Mass around the world. The move came in a document ironically entitled Traditionis Custodes (“Guardians of Tradition”). It crushed centuries of tradition, decreeing that traditional Latin Masses were not to take place any longer in normal parishes.
In 1969, interpreting proposals of the Second Vatican Council, Pope St Paul VI authorised a “new order” of the…
