Castrillón Hoyos contradicts Arinze: liberty for the Latin Mass

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Report #12, An NCR exclusive
Outreach to Latin Mass Catholics proposed for final message    

By John L. Allen Jr.
  Rome    

   
   
  A rather deafening silence at the  Synod of Bishops about the pre-Vatican II Mass was broken on Saturday,  when Colombian Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos proposed that the  bishops' final message contain an opening to Catholics attached to the  old Mass, perhaps treating it as one among several approved rites in  the Catholic church.  

Sources told NCR that Castrillón Hoyos did not  specifically mention the idea of a "universal indult," meaning  permission for priests to celebrate the old Mass whenever they like,  but that his remarks "could be read in that way."
 

 

Source (as of Oct. 15 PM)
 

 

[NuncDimittis]

Report #12, An NCR exclusive
Outreach to Latin Mass Catholics proposed for final message  

By John L. Allen Jr.
Rome

A rather deafening silence at the Synod of Bishops about the pre-Vatican II Mass was broken on Saturday, when Colombian Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos proposed that the bishops' final message contain an opening to Catholics attached to the old Mass, perhaps treating it as one among several approved rites in the Catholic church.  

Sources told NCR that Castrillón Hoyos did not specifically mention the idea of a "universal indult," meaning permission for priests to celebrate the old Mass whenever they like, but that his remarks "could be read in that way."

Source (as of Oct. 15 PM)

 

From the NCR report:

 

"Prior to Castrillón Hoyos' proposal, no one at the synod had spoken about the old Mass. Cardinal Francis Arinze, president of the Congregation for Divine Worship, defined the old Mass as "not a priority for the synod" at a Thursday press conference."

 

Thank God the Holy Spirit moved in the direction it did at the conclave. Cardinal Arinze's remarks are quite discouraging. Just the use of the term "old" Mass I find very interesting. I am not sure if those are Arinze's words or an NCR paraphrase.