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Article: Pope to Relax Policy on Old Liturgy; Letter Will Advise Bishops on Tridentine Mass, Said in Latin
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- The Washington Post
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- June 29, 2007
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The Vatican said yesterday that Pope Benedict XVI will soon issue
a document providing for wider use of the Tridentine Mass, the
centuries-old Latin rite that was largely supplanted in the 1960s by
a new liturgy, usually translated into modern languages.
Though the details of the long-awaited document have not been
made public, church experts said it is unlikely in the short term to
change the status quo in most U.S. parishes, which will continue to
celebrate Masses in English, Spanish and Latin using the missal, or
prayer book, approved by Pope Paul VI in 1969 following the far-
reaching changes of the Second Vatican Council.
But they said the document could make the Tridentine Mass more ...