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| September 29, 2025 |
In March 2021, we published a very sad post regarding the end of the Traditional Latin Mass in Saint Peter's Basilica:
Since the 2007 motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, which recognized that the Traditional Mass had never been abrogated (and in fact could never be so), many priests who have celebrated in the several side altars of St. Peter's have done so by using the 1962 Missal. And it was celebrated daily in two of the Basilica's major altars, especially the Altar of Blessed Pope Innocent XI. ...And the Latin Mass has been once again relegated to the Catacombs: it can only be celebrated (not by any priest in good standing, but exclusively by so-called "authorized priests") in set times (7, 7:30, 8, and 9 am) in the Clementine Chapel of the Vatican crypt. Yes, they really do hate us. Yes, they want us all to die and disappear. Yes, if they could, they would wipe us off from the face of the earth.
This was a prelude to what would come in July 2021, with the absolutely illegitimate motu proprio Traditionis custodes, whose aim is to one day completely extinguish the Traditional Latin Mass.
Well, that "prelude" has now ended. We already knew a Pontifical Mass had been allowed for the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage (Oct. 25). But already today, on Michaelmas, a Traditional Latin Mass was once again celebrated in the main floor of the Basilica, at the altar of Saint Michael the Archangel.
Is this a sign of things to come, as the Vatican Basilica Ban of March 2021 was a sign of the worldwide ban and restrictions of July 2021? One can only hope.
(Image and news courtesy of Josh Mansfield on X.)
