Pope Leo XIV has insisted that no one is permitted to add, remove or modify anything in the sacred liturgy on personal initiative.
The Pope made the remarks as he continued his series of catecheses on the documents of the Second Vatican Council during his May 27 general audience in St Peter’s Square.
The Holy Father focused for the second time on the Constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium. He began by quoting Pope Pius XII’s encyclical Mediator Dei: “The Church is a living organism and therefore, also with regard to the sacred liturgy, while maintaining the integrity of its teaching, grows and develops, adapting and conforming to the circumstances and needs that arise in the course of time.”
