Traditional Latin Mass: Canonists Question the Legislative Force of Recent Vatican Guidelines

ANALYSIS: The interpretive document considerably tightens already-sweeping restrictions on the traditional form of the Roman Rite.

Traditionis custodes: Vatican further tightens restrictions on Traditional Latin Mass

The Vatican said it wanted to ensure that priests who wish to celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass “share the desire of the Holy Father” that the Vatican II reform of the liturgy is recognized “as the unique expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite.”