Vatican to issue specific implementing rules
for Summorum Pontificum by Christmas?
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VATICAN CITY, Nov. 22 (KATHNEWS Exclusive)- Immediately after the publication of the Motu Proprio
Summorum Pontificum in July 2007. it was announced that specific rules would be issued to bring more clarity to its implementation.
The imminent Publication of such rules has been 'announced' several times in the Catholic media and discussed in numerous Internet forums and blogs. Sometimes it was claimed that the Holy Father already had them on his desk and was ready to sign the document. None of these assumptions have turned out right so far.
Kathnews now has exclusive information that the publication of the
Regulations for the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum is really imminent.
Senior Vatican sources claim the delay has been due to necessary corrections. and that the document could be signed by the Pope before Christmas this year.
[It seems more likely that the 'delay' was because the Vatican wanted to incorporate responses to the reports that bishops around the world were supposed to have submitted in September 2010, three years after SP came into force, on how SP has been implemented in their respective dicoeses and the problems they may have encountered.... At the very least, one hopes the new rules will spell out measures to deal once and for all with the deliberate obstructionism by some bishops and parish priests who oppose the 're-legitimization' of the traditional Mass by Benedict XVI. It is an ideological opposition and an obstructionism that is completely unjustifiable: It's no skin off anyone's nose if there are parishes and priests able and willing to celebrate the traditional Mass, and yet, these ideologues behave as if the traditional Mass were a personal affront to them, and even worse, as if it were an unthinkable crime that must not be tolerated!]
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 23/11/2010 05:35]