Priests who depart from the rubrics of the Mass may mean well. But Catholics should consider why both Popes Leo and Francis have called such deviations a problem.
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Pope Leo: Catholics cannot be ‘unengaged spectators’ amid ‘injustice, discrimination and violence’
In a new series of reflections on the Second Vatican Council’s pastoral constitution “Gaudium et Spes,” Pope Leo said the faithful are called to leave behind “all passivity and indifference” toward current events.
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Pope Leo explains why Vatican II needed to reform the Catholic Mass
The liturgy is “a living entity,” and it has always been subject to developments and changes over the centuries, Pope Leo said.
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Full text: Pope Leo on liturgical music, Vatican II and inculturation
“Music, indeed, is part of the liturgical action and is not merely a decorative part of the celebration,” Pope Leo said at today’s general audience.
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Pope Leo calls on priests to ‘respect’ the post-Vatican II liturgies in new letter
Pope Leo’s letter to Cardinal Roche is the latest in a series of moves he has made this summer to affirm the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
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SSPX appeals Vatican decision, claiming excommunication is ‘suspended’
The Society of St. Pius X—the group that the Vatican declared to be in schism on July 2—claims that beginning the appeal process “has the effect of suspending” the execution of the Vatican decree.
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Analysis: SSPX excommunications show what Pope Leo means by church ‘unity’
What do these decisions tell us about Pope Leo XIV and his understanding both of the SSPX and of the church unity that is central to his papacy?
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SSPX ordains four new bishops in defiance of Pope Leo and the Vatican
The SSPX ordained four new bishops without a papal mandate in Switzerland, triggering automatic excommunication for all six bishops involved.
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Cardinal Camillo Ruini, Catholic power broker in Italy’s culture wars, dies at 95
The late cardinal was critical of Pope Francis’ pontificate but celebrated the election of Pope Leo XIV, who Ruini hoped would “reunite the Catholic Church.”
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Pope Leo speaks out on SSPX ordinations and U.S.-Iran deal
The pope spoke to journalists outside Castel Gandolfo.