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For the Record: TLM back at upper church of Saint Peter's Basilica on Michaelmas (End of March 2021 Ban)

[Important update (3 pm EDT): We've been told by a Roman priest in the know that this same Michaelmas mass was also announced for the same altar at the same date, at 7 am, in the two previous years. However, it was celebrated very discreetly under the previous pontificate.]

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.


 (Image and news courtesy of Josh Mansfield on X.)


[Update: video, below.]



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By New Catholic at 9/29/2025 12:45:00 PM