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'Traditionis custodes'

Does ‘Traditionis custodes’ have a future?

Pope Francis restricted older liturgical forms. Will those restrictions last?

Luke Coppen
Mar 14, 2025
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No one — not even a liturgist — can unerringly predict the future. How many Catholics attending Mass in 1962 knew that the Roman Missal issued that year would be the last of its kind?

Mass celebrated according to the 1962 missal at St. John Cantius Church in Chicago. Credit: Extraordina…

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