The former Personal Secretary to Pope Benedict XVI, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, has said the Pope had “pain in his heart” when he was read Traditionis Custodes, with the Archbishop now calling for the removal of the prohibitions.
Archbishop Gänswein told Italian publication Il Giornale in a July 7 interview that Pope Benedict XVI liberalised the restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass through his 2007 motu proprio Summorum Pontificum to remove the existing rift in the liturgy. He stated that the Pope was “convinced that this motu proprio of his was a beginning” and that such a rite celebrated for so many centuries could not fail to be revived.”
