Article: Pope gives Latin Mass his blessing despite protests; Initiative: Popes critics say Latin Mass adherents are ultra-conservative.

THE Pope has dismissed a last-minute plea from senior figures within theCatholic Church to abandon plans to bring back the old Latin Mass.

Benedict XVI looks set to announce next month that the Tridentine Mass will beavailable alongside the New Riteoverturning the concerns of high-ranking Catholic churchmen.

Among the fiercest critics of the Latin Mass has been Britains highest-rankingCatholic cleric Cardinal Cormac Murphy-OConnor, whose parents hail from Cork.

He, along with other prominent Catholics, asked for the Holy See not to relaxrestrictions on the Old Rite Mass that was suppressed by the Church after theSecond Vatican Council of the ...

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