The bishops of Liverpool and Leeds have cancelled Traditional Latin Masses in their parish churches in the wake of further restrictions on access to old rite liturgies announced in Rome last week.
Archbishop Malcolm McMahon of Liverpool has demanded an end to Latin Masses celebrated in two Lancashire parish churches while Bishop Marcus Stock of Leeds has announced that the Old Mass can no longer be celebrated in any parish churches in his diocese.
The move follows the publication of a “rescript” by the Holy See which stipulates that permission for the use of a parish church for celebrations of Mass using the 1962 Missal may be granted only by the Dicastery for Divine Worship, which is headed by Yorkshire-born Cardinal Arthur Roche.
