[ELS]

As the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Joseph Ratzinger determined the specifics of the funeral Mass for Pope JPII and the Mass pro Eligendo Summo Pontifice during the interregnum. They were both very reverent, spiritual and beautiful. The latter was almost entirely in Latin with the Mass of the Angels (Missa de Angelis) ordinary. His wonderful homily was given in Italian (which is very close to ecclesiastical Latin).

I hope that he will be more actively supportive of Catholics who are attached to the Tridentine rite than JPII was.

[St. Johann Tetzel]

I think he will be far more supportive. I think he will steer the Novus Ordo liturgy back towards a closer resemblance to the Tridentine Mass than Luther's Table, and I suspect a Universal Indult will come during his reign.

The Universal Indult will be Rome's solution to the "SSPX problem" without Rome having to actually admit that some of the SSPX points were valid.

I doubt he will lift the excommunications. Too soon after JPII's death. It might be seen as some kind of assent to the claims of SSPX adherents about the whole Lefevre affair.

[cm_mom]

"I hope that he will be more actively supportive of Catholics who are attached to the Tridentine rite than JPII was."


Those of us who attend the Tridentine Mass do not do so out of some "attachment". There are far deeper reasons for our attending the Tridentine Mass than mere emotional attachment.