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'Traditionis custodes'

Vatican spokesman: ‘Traditionis custodes’ leak ‘very partial’

“It’s a contribution to a very partial and incomplete reconstruction of the decision-making process.”

Edgar Beltrán
Jul 03, 2025
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A Vatican spokesman argued Thursday that leaked documents suggesting the world’s bishops did not favor a clampdown on the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite when they were surveyed in 2020 were “very partial and incomplete.”

Holy See press office director Matteo Bruni at a July 3, 2025, Vatican press conference. Credit: Edgar Beltrán/Pillar Media.

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