Cardinal Arthur Roche has defended the Vatican’s restrictions on the preconciliar Latin Mass, insisting that the measures introduced under Pope Francis were prompted by concerns about unity.
In an interview with OSV News published on March 27, Cardinal Roche said the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes was rooted in the way the older form of the Mass had come to be used in certain quarters. “What the Holy Father began to realise is that the concession granted to those who found the new rite difficult was being promoted against the reform of the liturgy from the Second Vatican Council,” he said. “And that promotion … is a promotion ultimately against the unity of the Church.”
