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MORE ABOUT THE MOTU PROPRIO AND BENEDICT'S REASONS

Here is a translation of a story in Il Giornale today by a veteran Vatican correspondent who reveals another circumstantial background for the Pope's imminent liberalization of the Old Mass:

Ratzinger's liturgical turning point:
Giving free way to a rite that was
neither abolished nor prohibited

By Andrea Tornielli


Benedict XVI has signed the text of the Motu Proprio that will facilitate the use of the pre-Vatican II Missal in liturgical celebrations, making clear that it was never abolished or prohibited, but that instead, it represents a treasure of the Church.

There is a precedent that had remained secret to this day on the reasons for his decision, a text which the cardinals of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith prepared in November 1982 and which Il Giornale is now able to reveal.

The publication of the Motu Proprio should take place in the next few days, probably before the start of the Pope's summer vacation. It has been a well considered decision, following long collegial consultations, that`Ratzinger has taken in behalf of faithful Catholics who remain attached to the pre-1969 Mass.

John Paul II, with an indult, had already foreseen the possibility of using the pre-Conciliar Missal freely and had requested bishops to be generous in allowing celebration of the Old Mass. But in many dioceses, requests by traditionalists have met with often ungrounded refusals.

Benedict XVI - who, as a cardinal, often expressed his thoughts about what was taking place in the name of liturgical reform - now intends to move forward.

The text of the Motu Proprio will be accompanied by a pastoral letter which will explain the profound reasons for this step, and ask the bishops for their obedience, patience and 'understanding.'

On November 16, 1982, at the request of Papa Wojtyla, a meeting presided by Cardinal Ratzinger as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, with the participation of Cardinals Baggio, Baum, Casaroli O(who was then Secretary of State), Oddi and Archbishop Casoria, had decided that "the Roman Missal in the form in which it was used up to 1969 - independent of the 'Lefebvre question' - should be accepted by the Holy See for all masses said in Latin."

With two conditions: that the use of the old liturgical texts also presumes full acceptance of the new norms issued after Vatican -II and should not be taken to mean that the new norms are 'heretic or invalid'; and that for the public Masses celebrated in the parishes on Sundays and religious holidays, it is the 'new liturgical calendar' which must be observed.

All the participants agreed unanimously, answering 'affirmative', Yes, to the question of whether the Mass according to the old rite was valid.

[What reasons might have prevented such a reasonable document from being made known and put into practice????]

That meeting also anticipated a document against liturgical abuses, identified as one of the reasons for 'the present crisis in the Church', as well as in the remote future, the possibility of 'a synthesis of the two Missals.'

That future today seems much less remote. Benedict XVI's decision is clearly not a step backwards, but a stage in the liturgical reform intended by the Council, but which has not been fully realized.

In his presentation letter, Benedict XVI will preemptively answer objections to this liberalization that claim this is 'lack of obedience to the Council" or 'a rupture of unity."

Above all, as Ratzinger reminded us in 1998, "it was not the Council that changed the liturgical texts." What it did, he said, "was to order a review of the texts, and to this end, it laid down some fundamental principles," defining what is liturgy and providing a 'standard of judgment' for every celebration.

He said it was in ignoring these essential rules and the norms prescribed by the conciliar constitution that "then yes, the Council is being disobeyed."

Ratzinger has also explained several times that "in the course of its history, the Church has never abolished nor prohibited orthodox [in the generic sense] forms of liturgy, because to do so would have been alien to the spirit of the Church itself" because "a liturgy that expresses the true faith is never an assemblage put together following pragmatic criteria which could be arbitrary and manipulable, today being this and tomorrow being something else."

Instead, he says, liturgy is a living reality that "expresses the life of the Church, which condenses the faith, prayers and the life itself of generations, and which at the same time embodies in concrete form the action of God and man's response." Therefore, he points out, the Council ordered a possible reform of liturgical texts but did not prohibit preceding texts.

Finally, the Pope will point out that "there have always been many forms of the Latin rite." In fact up to Vatican-II, other rites coexisted with the Roman rite - the Ambrosian, the Mozarabic, that of Braga, of the Carthusians, of the Dominicans.

"No one was ever scandalized that the Dominicans, whom we find in many of our parishes, did not say mass like secular (diocesan) priests but followed their own rite. We never had any doubt that their rite was Catholic as much as the Roman rite, and we were proud that Catholicism has such a wealth of so many different traditions."


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