Rorate Caeli

Complete dossier on Summorum Pontificum


The news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (Propaganda Fide), Fides, provides a complete historical-documentary dossier (DOC) on the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, edited by Don Nicola Bux and Don Salvatore Vitiello.

Summary:

1. THE ANTECEDENTS

  • Sacrosanctum Concilium
  • The Constitution Missale Romanum of Pope Paul VI (1969)
  • The Indult Quattuor Abhinc Annos of Pope John Paul II (1984)
  • The Commissio Cardinalitia of 1986
  • The Motu Proprio Ecclesia Dei Adflicta of Pope John Paul II (1988)
  • Cardinal Medina on the Third Editio Typica of the Missal of Paul VI (2002)
  • Bibliography by Uwe Michael lang

2. THE ‘RENOVATIO’ OF THE ROMAN MISSAL