On February 21, the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, headed by prefect Cardinal Arthur Roche, issued a rescript, empowering Cardinal Roche with absolute and arbitrary power to grant or deny exceptions to Pope Francis’s 2021 motu proprio letter, Traditionis Custodes, which severely restricts celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM). The rescript, like the motu proprio before it, seems like a solution in search of a problem that doesn’t really exist. Yet the issuance of the motu proprio and rescript, and the reaction in the US to them, expose troubling fissures in the Church on this side of the Atlantic.