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Tridentine indult will soon be published, says Vatican cardinal

BY MARK GREAVES
THE VATICAN'S Ecclesia Dei commission met last week to discuss a papal document to broaden the use of the Tridentine Mass, a Chilean cardinal has said.
Cardinal Jorge Medina Estevez, a former prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, predicted that Pope Benedict XVI would release the document soon.
The commission, which was set up in 1988 to supervise Vatican relations with traditionalist Catholics, discussed the document last Tuesday, according to the cardinal, who is one of the commission members.
Cardinal Medina Estevez explained that the results of the meeting would be presented to Pope Benedict XVI by Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, the Ecclesia Dei chairman. He said he did not expect the document to be discussed any further by Ecclesia Dei.
The document is thought to give priests the freedom to celebrate the Tridentine Mass — the pre-Vatican II 1962 Latin Missal — without the explicit pelmission of the local bishop.
According to Vatican
commentators the document will he issued menu propria (on the Pope's initiative).
News of the proposed reform emerged in October when Cardinal Dario CastrilIon Hoyos, then prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, mentioned the Pope's plans to an audience of Canadian bishops.
The move would bring the Society of St Pius X — a traditionalist group that has long pushed for wider use of the Tridentine Mass nearer to reconciliation with the Vatican.
Pope Benedict has made new efforts to reach out to members of the traditionalist group — known as Lefebvrists after their founder Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who was excommunicated in 1988 — and met Bishop Bernard Fellay, the head of the society, earlier this year.
But Bishop Fellay has said that the restoration of the Tridentine Mass would not solve all the problems the society had with the Second Vatican Council.
Pope Benedict has repeatedly expressed distress at liturgical habits which have developed since the Second Vatican Council.




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