The president of the U.S. Catholic bishops has urged Catholics to wait for Pope Leo to comment on the traditional Mass, rather than taking Cardinal Arthur Roche’s comments as the final word.
Speaking to Raymond Arroyo during EWTN’s flagship World Over programme, Archbishop Paul Coakley expressed some notable reticence about the import of a recent interview by Cardinal Roche regarding the future of the traditional Mass.
Asked by Arroyo about Roche’s recent Tablet interview – in which he claimed that Pope Leo had no intention to change restrictions on the old rite – Coakley pointed to Leo, not Roche, as the man to pay attention to.
