Rorate Caeli

A new friend of the Traditional Mass in the French hierarchy

Today, November 28, Friday, the Vatican Information Service announced this:

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS


VATICAN CITY, 28 NOV 2008 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

Fr. Jean-Pierre Batut of the clergy of the archdiocese of Paris, France, pastor of "Saint-Eugene et Sainte-Cecile", as auxiliary of Lyon (area 5,087, population 1,745,000, Catholics 1,207,000, priests 523, permanent deacons 59, religious 2,201), France . The bishop-elect was born in Paris in 1954 and ordained a priest in 1984.


Saint-Eugene et Sainte Cecile parish in Paris happens to offer both the Novus Ordo and the Gregorian Rite on Sunday and from Tuesday to Friday. On Mondays there is a Traditional Mass while on Saturdays there is a Novus Ordo Mass in Latin.