[Petrosius]

After this motu proprio, a priest who wants to celebrate that is not in the same condition as before—that it was for nostalgia, for desire, &c.— and so he has to ask permission from Rome. A kind of permission for bi-ritualism, which is given only by Rome. [Like] a priest who celebrates in the Eastern Rite and the Latin Rite, he is bi-ritual but with the permission of Rome.

Is Pope Francis declaring that the traditional Latin rite and the new rite are actually two distinct rites and not just two forms of the same rite as Pope Benedict XVI declared? If so, this has major canonical ramifications.

[ebb tide]

Is Pope Francis declaring that the traditional Latin rite and the new rite are actually two distinct rites and not just two forms of the same rite as Pope Benedict XVI declared?

He sure is; but then again, he's the Dictator Pope, not the good shepherd.

[scouter]

I wouldn’t mind if he did officially create a distinct rite, separate from the Novus Ordo. That would entail creating dioceses and appointing bishops. A simpler solution would be to create personal prelatures or personal ordinariates, like the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter.

But all that presumes good will and an actually pastoral pope.