Pope Francis has said he launched the latest crackdown against access to the Traditional Latin Mass because the Old Rite was being misused “in an ideological way”.
The Pontiff told a group of fellow Jesuits that he authorised the “rescript” that led to the cancellation of Old Rite Masses in churches throughout the world because of the rise of ideological “restorationism”.
He said he considered the movement to be a form of indietrismo, an Italian word meaning “backwardness”, which he believed agitated against the reforms of the Second Vatican Council of the 1960s.
