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What's a TLM, anyway? A Latin liturgy lexicon

A Pillar Explainer

The Pillar
Jul 08, 2021
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Pope St. Paul VI offers the first Mass in Italian, March 7, 1965. public domain.

Rome has been full of reports in recent weeks predicting that Pope Francis will soon modify the norms of Summorum pontificum, a 2007 document which granted wide latitude for priests to celebrate the “Extraordinary Form” of the liturgy.

It remains to be seen when the pope will…

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