Today, the Associated Press has picked up the story. This is significant. Diane Montagna’s gigantic scoop has entered the mainstream secular media. Below the first three paragraphs of the article is an embedded X posting of mine raising an interesting question.
ROME (Nicole Winfield/AP) — The debate in the Catholic Church over the celebration of the old Latin Mass is heating up just as Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate is getting under way, with the apparent leak of Vatican documents that undermine the stated reason of his predecessor Pope Francis for restricting access to the ancient liturgy.
The documents suggest that the majority of Catholic bishops who responded to a 2020 Vatican survey about the Latin Mass had expressed general satisfaction with it, and warned that restricting it would “do more harm than good.”
The texts from the Vatican’s doctrine office were posted online Tuesday by a Vatican reporter who has followed the Latin Mass dispute, Diane Montagna. The Vatican spokesman and prefect of the doctrine office didn’t immediately respond when asked Wednesday to confirm their authenticity, or comment.
I don’t know if anybody else has pointed this out, but — to the best of my knowledge — the organs of the Holy See slow down dramatically as they are maintained by a skeleton crew during the Roman summer after the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul. This story drops two days later,… https://t.co/b3LAzXhflX
— Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M. (@Brother_Andre) July 2, 2025
