Q396 – Why is the liberation of the Traditional Latin Mass a matter of justice?

Interview Organization: Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima
Interviewer Name: Christopher P. Wendt
Date: September 13, 2025
Bishop Schneider says two generations of Catholics and priests have grown up with the traditional Latin Mass under papal permission, and many know no other form. He argues that asking them to abandon what formed their spiritual life is unjust. He calls for freeing the traditional Mass from discrimination and marginalization within the Church.
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Yes, it is a matter of justice, because in this liturgy there have grown up already at least two generations of good, exemplary Catholic families and priests who, with the permission of the popes, grew up in this mass at least from 84, so more than 40 years ago when John Paul the second issued the decree that this Mass can be celebrated and allowed it to the bishops. Since then, at least officially and formally, with the Holy See's approval, we have already had more than 40 years of Catholics growing up in this mass.

And even some of them did not know the Novus Ordo, and now they receive a sign from the Holy See itself, from Pope Francis, saying you must, in time, abandon this which you cherish, which was your spiritual home. And this is unjust, and at the same time, taking away the form of prayer, the holy mass, in which the saints, almost all the old saints whom we know, grew up and had spiritual help in living this liturgy. So this is unjust. Therefore, this is a question of justice to restore and free the traditional Latin Mass from any signs of discrimination and from being put at the periphery.

As the language of Pope Francis always said, we have to go to the peripheries and be very kind to those who are in the peripheries. So please, these people now are put in the periphery of the life of the Church and discriminated against by some measures of bishops.

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