Letter #20, 2024, Tuesday, June 18: End game?

Is the Vatican about to call for the complete end of the old Latin Mass, after three years (since the promulgation of Traditionis custodes on July 16, 2021) of increasing administrative pressure to limit the celebration of the old liturgy worldwide?

That’s what a new report now circulating on the internet is claiming.

Many of you will have already heard of this, and some will have seen podcasts discussing it.

I will be doing a live podcast in about 90 minutes, at 11 am Eastern time in the US (5 pm Rome time) with Matt Gaspers on this question, on YouTube at this link, as we continue our regular ongoing comparison and analysis of the old rite and the Novus Ordo.

(You may sign up for our Urbi et Orbi channel at this link, which will mean that you will automatically receive a little notification every time we do anything, so you will be aware of it. There is no cost; it is free…)

(Note: I will be doing a second podcast today at 3 pm with Joseph and Monique Gonzalez on Our Lady of Guadalupe at this link.)

Here below is the text of the report, published by Rorate Caeli, at this link here. —RM

This is the Rorate Caeli report that is rocketing around the internet:

URGENT — Growing Rumors of a “Final Solution” for the Traditional Latin Mass — TLM (link)

Dear readers,

Once again, as at least twice in the past (before the crackdown on the Franciscans of the Immaculate, and in the twelve months leading up to Traditionis Custodes), Rorate Caeli is sad to be the first bearer of grave, heavy, and persistent rumors coming from the circles close to Cardinal [Arthur] Roche and to the liturgical warriors close to Casa Santa Marta in Rome.

An attempt is being made to implement, as soon as possible, a Vatican document with a stringent, radical, and final solution banning the Traditional Latin Mass. The same ideologues who imposed Traditionis Custodes and its implementation, and who are still frustrated with its apparently slow results, especially in the United States and France, want to ban it and shut it down everywhere and immediately. They want to do it while Francis is still in power. They want to make it as wide, final, and irreversible as possible.

These rumors come from the most credible sources,* in different continents, and we urge you to take them as seriously as possible, and do what you can in your station, as laity, priests, bishops, cardinals, religious men and women, to prevent the ban from becoming a concrete measure.

Can we stop it from happening? Yes, we can: by prayer, sacrifice, penance — and influence and pressure, of whatever sort we can manage to put forward. The enemy is strong, but Our Lord and Our Lady are mightier.

When we have further information that can be made public, we will let you know.

—Rorate Caeli

*Note: What we can say is that these rumors come from the very same sources that revealed to Rorate that the Vatican had sent out a survey to bishops on Summorum Pontificum (in preparation for what would become Traditionis Custodes), and Rorate was the first source to post this; and the very same sources who first revealed that a document like Traditionis Custodes would come (and Rorate was also the first to reveal it at the time). With the addition of other credible sources who have now mentioned the same present rumors and whom Rorate was not acquainted with at the time of Traditionis custodes, and who now corroborate the persistent rumors.