A Surprising Number of Priests Are Learning The Latin Mass

(New Liturgical Movement): In the days and weeks following the promulgation of Summorum Pontificum, there have been many reports, some public and some private, of priests setting out to learn how to say the Mass from the Missal of 1962. Some of these reports were rather surprising in some respects, at least to me. The goal of learning the old Missal was being adopted by priests who otherwise evidenced little previous interest in the old Indult, or, perhaps, they had been interested all along but held some fear of taking on the associated political risks of drawing the attention of chanceries on the lookout for signs of “reactionary” impulses.

This is one of the many reasons that Benedict XVI’s document is so wise. It leaves the choice to learn the old Missal to the priests themselves, even while not taking the authority from the Bishop to regulate the liturgy within his own diocese. It merely shifts the burden of the first-round of decision making from the Bishop to the priest, and this has made all the difference...

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