Latin Mass Fans Celebrate 10th Anniv. in Rome; Pope Away,Says 1960s Vernacular Reforms Rule

Fans of the old Latin Mass descended on Rome today (September 14, 2017) for their annual pilgrimage facing indifference to their cause -- if not outright resistance -- from none other than Pope Francis, according to the America Magazine website.


Ten years after Pope Benedict XVI passed a law allowing greater use of the Latin Mass, Francis seems to be doing everything possible to roll that back or simply pretend it never happened.


In recent weeks, he has affirmed with "magisterial authority" that the reforms of the 1960s allowing for Mass to be celebrated in the vernacular rather than Latin were "irreversible."


More recently, he gave local bishops conferences authority to oversee those translations, rather than the Vatican.