VATICAN CITY (Antonino Cambria/LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Raymond Burke will celebrate a Pontifical High Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica at the end of October for the annual Ad Petri Sedem Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage at the Vatican.
Burke will celebrate the Solemn Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) on October 26 during the 14th annual Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage (October 24-26) from the altar of the chair of St. Peter, per the pilgrimage’s official program. This marks the first time in three years that the pilgrimage’s Mass will be permitted to be offered inside the Vatican, as Pope Francis’ Vatican had prohibited Masses from being offered inside for the 2023 and 2024 pilgrimages.
The Vatican’s approval for the Mass to be held inside St. Peter’s comes as speculation continues to mount over whether Pope Leo XIV will reverse Pope Francis’ 2021 motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, which reversed the universal permissions for the celebration of the Tridentine Mass granted in Summorum Pontificum.
