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[Catholic Caucus] Official Vatican Report Dismantles Traditionis CustodesA major exposé on Traditionis Custodes leaked a confidential Vatican document summarizing the 2020 global survey of bishops—a document that allegedly influenced Pope Francis’s controversial decision to restrict the Traditional Latin Mass. According to the leaked findings, the majority of bishops did not support limiting the Latin Mass and even warned that such restrictions could worsen tensions within the Catholic Church.Journalist Diane Montagna recently published the report prepared by the Vatican following the questionnaire that, in 2020, the then Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had sent to the presidents of episcopal...

[Catholic Caucus] Traditionis Custodes "failed": The leak could have been "strategic."The leak could be strategic: For years, only the very negative feedback from the French Bishops' Conference on the survey by the then Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on the “Old Mass” was known - completely in line with Francis. Now that a new pope is in office, who has repeatedly revived traditions abandoned by his predecessor - from the Corpus Christi procession and the handing over of the pallia to new archbishops to the traditional vacation spot - a new picture is being painted.Francis had justified his...

[Catholic Caucus] Even the German Conference news website concedes: Francis liedIn a piece on the explosive revelation of the generally positive response of the world's bishops to Summorum Pontificum, the news website of the German Bishops' Conference uses the most diplomatic of languages:Pope Francis appears to have ignored the advice of the bishops previously consulted worldwide when he restricted the Traditional Latin Mass. According to documents that have now become public, the responses to a survey conducted by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on the implementation of the rules for the pre-conciliar liturgy put in place by...

[Catholic Caucus] EXCLUSIVE: Official Vatican Report Exposes Major Cracks in Foundation of Traditionis CustodesPreviously undisclosed documents raise serious questions about the stated rationale for Pope Francis’ 2021 decree restricting the Traditional Latin Mass.A Traditional Latin Mass is celebrated at the tomb of St. Catherine of Siena at the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome, Sept. 15, 2017 (Photo: Edward PentinVATICAN CITY, July 1, 2025 — New evidence has come to light that exposes major cracks in the foundation of Traditionis Custodes, Pope Francis’ 2021 decree that restricted the traditional Roman liturgy.This journalist has obtained the Vatican’s overall assessment of...

[Catholic Caucus] Journalist Obtains Exclusive Access to World Report on Summorum Pontificum: Francis' Restrictions Based on LiesAmerican journalist Diane Montagna, who has long covered the Vatican, has obtained a explosive exclusive document: the original summary and report of the Global Assessment of the Application of Summorum Pontificum, the 2007 document by Pope Benedict XVI that freed the Traditional Latin Mass and Liturgy.Summorum Pontificum itself foresaw a report, in order to adjust any issues with implementation -- and the report now obtained was generally positive. As Montagna reports:The previously undisclosed text, which forms a crucial part of the official report by...

[Catholic Caucus] Troubles Ahead: Francis Praises Opus Dei to the Skies"I am a very close friend of the Opus Dei, I like it very much and it works well in the Church," Francis pretended during his Abc.es interview: "The good they do is very great."He added that he is "a friend" of the Vicar General of Opus Dei, Father Mariano Fazio, who is from Argentina. For Francis, his crackdown on Opus Dei was "not only" a matter of Opus Dei, but of personal prelatures. However, Opus Dei is the only personal prelature in existence and Francis does not care about...

[Catholic CaucusTRADITIONIS CUSTODES: More Facts Emerge (What the Bishops of the World Actually Told Francis)Author’s Note: In the print-edition of my 2021 CIC talk, titled “Traditionis Custodes: Separating Fact from Fiction” and published online at The Remnant on October 7, 2021, I wrote that “the premises and conclusions of Traditionis Custodes are not the same as those presented in the detailed main report produced by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF),” on the basis of a consultation of the world’s bishops. “Traditionis Custodes was not consistent with what the main report recommended or revealed.”Regarding the CDF’s detailed...

TRADITIONIS CUSTODES: Separating Fact from FictionWhen, on July 16, 2021, Pope Francis promulgated Traditionis Custodes, restricting the traditional Latin Mass, he said that according to the results of a recent Vatican consultation of bishops, the norms of his predecessors Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, had been exploited by some who attend the traditional Latin Mass to sow dissent from the Second Vatican Council. In the apostolic letter, Pope Francis writes in regard to the survey of bishops:“In line with the initiative of my Venerable Predecessor Benedict XVI to invite the bishops to assess the application of the...