Leaked Vatican Documents Undermine Francis’ Stated Rationale for Suppressing Traditional Latin Mass

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Journalist publishes ‘overall assessment’ of bishops’ survey results…Leaked Vatican Documents Undermine Francis’ Stated Rationale for Suppressing Traditional Latin MassOn Tuesday, July 1, 2025, the highly-credible Vatican reporter Diane Montagna published internal Vatican documents 0n her blog that purportedly demonstrate that ‘Pope’ Francis did not quite tell the (whole) truth when he claimed in an accompanying letter that his decision to issue the motu proprio letter Traditionis Custodes on July 16, 2021, was based on alarming feedback he had received from the world’s bishops. Traditionis Custodes is the Apostolic Letter which greatly limits the permitted use of the 1962 Missal (‘Traditional Latin Mass’) and cancels out Benedict XVI’s 2007 motu proprio letter Summorum Pontificum.… READ MORE