The Rise of Latin Youth

Liberal bishops dismissed Summorum Pontificum, Pope Benedict XVI's apostolic constitution authorizing wider use of the traditional Latin mass, as a bone thrown to over-the-hill conservatives. But Pope Benedict XVI probably wrote it more for the young than the old.

One of the points he stressed in his letter accompanying Summorum Pontificum was that "what earlier generations held as sacred remains sacred for us too." He had previously written that the widespread contempt for the old mass -- the treatment of it as something "forbidden" -- constituted an act of self-mutilation for a religion predicated on tradition.

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