Gregorius Magnus - Summer 2023 - Edition no. 15

Other Rumoured Documents

The latest version of the rumours, from a journalist everyone regards as having excellent sources, Diane Montagna, appeared in The Remnant on Saturday, 25th February.

Montagna’s sources say that there are two documents in circulation. One aims at tightening up Traditionis Custodes.

by banning diaconal and priestly ordinations in the Vetus Ordo , prohibiting the administration of the other sacraments to the faithful, and requiring concelebration of all priests, including members of these institutes. A prohibition of Sunday Masses in the Vetus Ordo is also said to be on the table.

The other document takes a very different approach:

It would recount the ‘blessings’ of the liturgical reform of Paul VI and the ‘abundant fruit’ it has born in the Church, and would seek to ‘crown and complete’ it by declaring that, henceforth, the only official rite of the Latin Church is the Roman Missal of Paul VI, the Novus Ordo.

It is hard to judge how this would work in practice, but Montagna’s sources suggest that its effects could be even worse than the first option. It is this second option which is linked to the 54th anniversary of the Novus Ordo, Monday of Holy Week.

It is to be noted that the rumoured documents would affect the Traditional priestly institutes very badly, whereas, particularly in light of the FSSP Decree, they have enjoyed a measure of protection up to now. Contrary to many expectations after the publication of TC, there has been no ‘visitation’ of their seminaries, and the Dicastery for Religious has apparently done little to exercise the authority over them given to it by TC.