Q373 – What Action Should the Holy Father Take On the Traditional Latin Mass Now?

Interview Organization: Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima
Interviewer Name: Christopher P. Wendt
Date: July 13, 2025
The Pope must protect faithful Catholics persecuted for loving the Traditional Latin Mass. Liturgical abuses are tolerated while tradition is punished. This injustice contradicts calls for tolerance. Pope Leo should act courageously, honoring Pope Pius V’s mandate, and end the marginalization of those who cherish this ancient, sacred rite.
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Well, I think that the Holy Father must protect his faithful sons and daughters, who are truly being persecuted by these bishops. This is unbearable. It is a great injustice toward good and faithful Catholics who only desire to pray as their forefathers did, nothing more, who loved the Pope, who loved their bishop.

At the same time, other liturgical abuses are tolerated and go unpunished. Therefore, I believe it is an urgent matter for the Pope to act to do something to protect all the faithful who are suffering under these measures, these acts of persecution against the Traditional Latin Mass, or its limitation. They are being treated as second-class Catholics. This is an injustice, and we must publicly say so.

It is unjust, especially in a time when everyone is proclaiming the need for a synodal way, for tolerance, for acceptance of the proposals and desires of the lay people, and so on. But there is one category that is punished and marginalized: the faithful and the priests who only wish to pray and to celebrate the Mass as it was done for nearly a millennium, celebrated by the saints.

So we must take this seriously, and we must pray for Pope Leo that he may recognize this injustice and have the courage to perform an act of his Magisterium to truly free the Latin Mass. That he may go back to Pope Pius V, who solemnly canonized this form of celebrating the Mass, almost like a kind of liturgical canonization.

The Magisterium cannot simply ignore the document of the holy Pope Pius V, who in such extraordinary and solemn words declared that no one, not even in the future, can be forbidden from celebrating this form, this rite of the Roman Mass, because of its ancient and venerable tradition.

And so, I think and I hope that Pope Leo will put an end to this persecution.