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Article: Pope revives old traditional Latin Mass.(Main News)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- July 9, 2007
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VATICAN CITY (AP) -- In a major gesture to traditional, conservative Roman Catholics, Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday removed restrictions on celebrating the old Latin Mass, reviving a rite that was all but swept away by the liberalizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council in 1962-65.
Benedict stressed that he was not negating Vatican II by allowing greater use of the Tridentine Mass. His decision, nevertheless, overruled the objections of liberal-minded Catholics and angered Jews because the Tridentine rite contains a prayer for their conversion.
Benedict issued a document authorizing parish priests to celebrate the Tridentine Mass if a ''stable group ...