Q412 – Is the long-term solution simply for the pope to nullify Traditionis Custodes, allowing priests the freedom to celebrate the Latin Mass?

Interview Organization: Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima

Interviewer Name: Christopher P. Wendt

Date: January 13, 2026

Bishop Schneider proposes issuing a solemn document, rather than nullifying existing motu proprios, to newly regulate the traditional Latin Mass. He suggests an independent, higher-level document granting full freedom and peaceful coexistence of both liturgical forms, without restrictions or impediments.

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I would say, not directly nullify. I suggested, and I made the proposal to the Holy Father when I met him, to issue a more solemn document, a motu proprio, as Benedict XVI did, and not an anti-motu proprio like Pope Francis. I think it would not be fitting to do an anti motu proprio against Traditionis Custodes, but simply a more solemn document above the motu proprios, to issue a new regularization of the entire issue of the traditional Latin Mass. This would be done independently of the existing motu proprios, as a new solemn regularization giving complete freedom and allowing both forms to coexist peacefully, with no limitations or impediments. This should be the principle.

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