Q411 – Has there been discussion of forming an ordinariate or special ecclesiastical structure for traditional Latin Mass Catholics, and would that be a good or bad idea?

I personally am not very convinced of this solution of an ordinariate for the traditional liturgy because with this measure, all who are attached to the traditional liturgy will be closed into a kind of preservation. Then the traditional liturgy exists only there, and bishops will have more grounds and reasons to refuse the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass in parishes, saying that there is the ordinariate and people should go there.

This then becomes similar to the so-called ordinariate for former Anglicans. In this way, the traditional Latin Mass, which I think must again be in the midst of the Church, spread more as a normal phenomenon, becomes something extraordinary that is kept only within one structure or closed within an ordinariate.

I think it would be more fitting to give complete freedom, simply given by the Pope, complete freedom with the same rights and the same dignity as the so-called Novus Ordo, so that both coexist. The Pope should take away from bishops the right to impede or limit the traditional Latin Mass. The Pope should establish norms so that the traditional Latin Mass will be really accessible without impediment and celebrated in the Church.

With the presence of the traditional Latin Mass, it would slowly grow and penetrate the life of the Church, help heal the liturgical chaos, and attract more people to this form rather than being closed in one structure or a few structures, as something extraordinary, like what happened with former Anglicans. They have their own Anglican structure, which is good, but it is only for that group.

I mean that it should be for all, as something normal.