According to the Vatican Press Office a new moto proprio is to be announced which would not restrict ‘the liturgical renewal desired by the Second Vatican Council’.
It needs to be mentioned that the moto proprio Summorum Pontificum specified rules for offering Mass according to the Missal promulgated by John XXIII in 1962 ( the Tridentine Mass), and for administering most of the sacraments in the form they had before the Second Vatican Council. It allowed lbishops to establish places where Mass could be said using the 1962 Missal. It granted greater freedom to use the Tridentine liturgy in its 1962 form, stating that all priests may freely offer the Sacrificial Mass with the 1962 Missal privately, without having to ask for permission from anyone. It also permitted parish priests and rectors to willingly accept requests from groups who adhere to this liturgical tradition.
Pope Benedict explained that he was providing the rituals that nourished the faithful for centuries. He hoped it would be an interior reconciliation in the heart of the Church, with Traditionalist Catholics such as the members of the Society of St. Pius X.
However Pope Benedict XVI still expects all Catholics to attend the Tridentine Rite Mass using the Novos Ordo Mass ecclesiology which has no basis in Vatican Council II and is opposed to the Magisterial documents of Pope John Paul II. So the new moto proprio will continue the error, even demanding priests to deny an ex cathedra dogma which was accepted by all priests in the past using the Tridentine Rite.
For instance there is no textual basis in Vatican Council II which would deny or change the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. Yet priests are not allowed to affirm it citing Vatican Council II.
The Letter of the Holy Office 1949 to the Archbishop of Boston clearly refers to ‘the dogma’, the ‘infallible’ teaching. The dogma indicates all Jews in Boston need to convert into the Catholic Church for salvation. This was exactly the teaching of Fr. Leonard Feeney. So the Letter of the Holy Office supported Fr.Leonard Feeney on doctrine. He was not excommunicated for heresy but for disobedience.
Yet priests offering the Great Sacrifice in the Tridentine Rite are told not to affirm the dogma in its rigorist interpretation since Fr.Leonard Feeney was excommunicated for doing so.
So the priests are allowed to offer Holy Mass according to Summorum Pontificum and now the new moto proprio if they are in mortal sin i.e. if they deny an ex cathedra dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus which is supported by Vatican Council II ( Ad Gentes 7) and Dominus Iesus 20.
The priests offering the Novus Ordo Mass in the vernacular languages any way do not accept extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
They claim that it is contradicted by Lumen Gentium 16 which says that a person in invincible ignorance can be saved even if he is not a formal member of the Church and so this contradicts the dogma.
The priests offering the Tridentine Rite Mass would agree that a person can be saved in invincible ignorance and it would be known only to God. Even the communities of Fr. Leonard Feeney agree in principle (de jure) that there can be the possibility that a person in invincible ignorance or the baptism of desire can be saved. This is not an issue or problem for them.
However no where in Vatican Council II is it said that we know of specific cases in the present times of people saved in invincible ignorance. This is the false assumption made by Novos Ordo priests who any way are ‘celebrating’ a sacrilegious Mass i.e. to be in public manifest mortal sin and offering Mass without Confession or removing the scandal.
So the new moto proprio will continue to allow priests to offer Holy Mass if they remain in public mortal sin. This is a liturgical issue.
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(Photos from the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales)
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