No, there is no news about Leo XIV and Traditionis custodes

 

Some online sources have apparently inflated the leak first reported by the Catholic News Service of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (mentioned by us here last week), that is, that the Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain had mentioned to local bishops that the Dicastery of Divine Worship, under the new pontificate, would grant 2-year-extensions of local diocesan Traditional Latin Masses, if requested by the local Ordinary.

We have read in several web resources in different languages since then that this means that "the age of Traditionis custodes is over," or words to that effect. We will not link to any specific one, but, considering what has happened in the past, it is very likely that the rumor will be retranslated into English as an inflated version of the original report in English, so we wish to dispel it right away.

As we first mentioned in our X account (@RorateCaeli) This is becoming one of those exercises of telephone game ("Chinese whispers") -- a leaked rumor of what the Nuncio to Great Britain might have said (that supposedly the Dicastery for Divine Worship under Leo XIV would grant 2-year extensions to local TLMs when requested by the local bishops) has now become, "Pope Leo XIV announces THE END OF LITURGICAL DISCRIMINATION. He affirms that there is NO REASON to exclude the traditional mass and PROMISES 'generous' exceptions to Traditionis custodes."

Leo has said nothing. For the moment, nothing has changed regarding Traditionis custodes.

It may change. But nothing has changed so far, strictly speaking.