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This Week in the Register What Happened to The Indult?
Pope Benedict XVI’s Sacramentum Caritatis (The Sacrament of Charity) on the Eucharist is beautiful, comprehensive and deep.
BY Father Owen Kearns Publisher
March 25-31, 2007 Issue |
Posted 3/20/07 at 7:00 AM
Pope
Benedict XVI’s Sacramentum Caritatis (The
Sacrament of Charity) on the Eucharist is beautiful, comprehensive and deep.
Read elsewhere in this issue for a full treatment of this post-synodal
apostolic exhortation. However, for some Catholics, one item is conspicuous by
its absence.
It had been reported that a document
allowing wide use of the Pius V Missal would be part of the document. The Pius
V Missal is often called the “Tridentine Rite” or old Latin Mass.
The Catholic News Service reported
that the Holy Father intended to publish such a document, and the Register
reported that news.
It is not clear how the rumor
started that this “universal indult” allowing the Pius V Mass would be part of
the new Eucharistic document. The Catholic News Service piece made no such
claim. It cited a Vatican source expecting that such a document would be issued
by the Pope motu proprio — on his own
initiative.”
On March 13, journalists asked
Cardinal Angelo Scola, patriarch of Venice, about the possibility of a papal
document aimed at re-establishing the Pius V Missal.
In Venice, said Cardinal Scola, “to
celebrate Sunday Mass in Latin, with the indult, has been allowed. And all this
is done with great correctness and enormous respect, and there are no tensions
between the clergy and the people.”
But Cardinal Scola raised the
objection many bishops have to the indult. Bishops conferences, particularly in
France, have argued that the introduction of an alternative Missal would be a
cause of division. “It would be a contradiction of terms,” said Cardinal
Scola, “if the liturgical act became a beginning of division of the Church.”
Sacramentum Caritatis does
not expand usage of the Pius V Missial. At the same time, it doesn’t preclude
the possibility of an indult. What it does, is urge more Latin
and Gregorian chant at all of our Masses.
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