{"id":85039,"date":"2026-07-31T07:52:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85039"},"modified":"2026-07-31T07:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:52:22","slug":"pope-wont-reverse-francis-letter-restricting-latin-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/pope-wont-reverse-francis-letter-restricting-latin-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Won&#8217;t Reverse Francis&#8217; Letter Restricting Latin Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From CW News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments said in an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetablet.co.uk\/features\/work-still-to-do-the-tablet-interview-with-cardinal-arthur-roche\/\">interview<\/a>\u00a0that Pope Leo is \u201cnot going to change\u201d\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/culture\/library\/view.cfm?recnum=12541\">Traditionis Custodes<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Pope Francis\u2019s 2021 apostolic letter restricting the celebration of the extraordinary form of the Mass, nor restore the provisions of Pope Benedict\u2019s 2007 apostolic letter\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/culture\/library\/view.cfm?recnum=7651\">Summorum Pontificum<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, let me say, first of all, it\u2019s a very complex area,\u201d said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/press.vatican.va\/content\/salastampa\/en\/documentation\/cardinali_biografie\/cardinali_bio_roche_a.html\">Cardinal Arthur Roche<\/a>. \u201cAnd it\u2019s a very important area because the Eucharist is the sacrament of unity: it\u2019s the place where we should all be able to be together to celebrate Mass. So if it begins to divide us, there\u2019s something seriously amiss. But no, Pope Leo is not going to change\u00a0<em>Traditionis Custodes<\/em>, and he\u2019s not going back to\u00a0<em>Summorum Pontificum<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CW News: The prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments said in an\u00a0interview\u00a0that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85040,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85039\/revisions\/85040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}