The Archdiocese of Genoa, headed by Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco (very close to Cardinal Bertone, his predecessor in Liguria), made public today a very substantial note on the prospect of the Motu proprio for the liberalization of the Traditional Mass. The whole text is available here.
Precisions regarding [in merito] an eventual promulgation of a "Motu proprio" to ease the appliction of the indult on the use of the Missal called of Saint Pius V
November 27, 2006
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1) the Pope, due to his supreme authority, has the faculty to put in practice universally valid and binding juridical and pastoral acts;
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8) the Council of Trent did not intend to unify with an act of authority the existing rites of the Latin Church; in fact, based on the principle established by the same Saint Pius V -- who, at the request of the Council, effected the reform --, the churches and religious orders which had for at least two centuries their own rite of venerable tradition, could preserve it. With the passing of the years, in fact, the Roman Rite established itself, though not in an exclusive way; the case of the Ambrosian rite, spread through some valleys of the Ticino (called "Ambrosian Valleys") and the entire Archdiocese of Milan (though, even there, with exceptions: Monza, Trezzo, Treviglio) is symbolic [of that].
9) two valid expressions of the same Catholic faith -- that of Saint Pius V and that of Paul VI -- cannot be presented as "expressing opposite views" and, thus, as mutually irreconcilable;
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