On 'Traditionis' dubia, will power overrule authority?

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Bishop Arthur Roche, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship. Credit: © Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk/ via Flickr.

When the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and Sacraments issued new instructions Saturday on a papal plan to limit the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, the document seemed to be a strong assertion of the Vatican’s will o…