New curbs on the Traditional Latin Mass “broke Pope Benedict’s heart”, according to his private secretary.
Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the closest confidant of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, revealed that the de facto reversal of his policies to liberate the Old Mass came as a heavy blow to the former pontiff, who died on Saturday at the age of 95.
“It hit him pretty hard,” said the archbishop. “I believe it broke Pope Benedict’s heart to read the new motu proprio because his intention had been to help those who simply found a home in the Old Mass to find inner peace, to find liturgical peace, in order to draw them away from Lefebvre.
