Cardinal Bagnasco calls for relaxing ban on Traditional Latin Mass
September 15, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, the former president of the Italian bishops’ conference, indicated that he favored a relaxation of the ban on the Traditional Latin Mass in a newspaper interview.
Noting the need for unity in the Church—and saying that Pope Leo has made unity his goal—the retired Archbishop of Genoa said: “I have never seen, and I do not see now, how the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite... could create problems.” He pointed out that the Catholic Church embraces more than 30 different liturgical rites today.
If restrictions on the traditional liturgy are relaxed, “I see neither risks nor dangers if things are done peacefully and with everyone’s good will,” the cardinal said.
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