Archbishop Gänswein urges Pope Leo to end Latin Mass restrictions, restore Summorum Pontificum

 The former personal secretary for Pope Benedict XVI said the Traditional Latin Mass can't be 'valid and valuable yesterday and then no longer valid tomorrow.'

Archbishop Georg Ganswein pays his respect next to the coffin of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI during his funeral mass at St. Peter's square on January 5, 2023, in Vatican CityChristopher Furlong/Getty Images

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Antonino Cambria

(LifeSiteNews) — Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the papal nuncio to Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia, during an interview released last weekend said Pope Leo XIV should end the restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) and return to the norms of Pope Benedict XVI’s motu proprio Summorum Pontificum because it brought unity to the Church.

Gänswein, during an interview that aired on December 7 with the German Catholic television network,  Katholisches Fernsehen (K-TV), noted that the Tridentine Mass, which nourished the faith of the Church for centuries, cannot suddenly become invalid or invaluable now, and questioned why Pope Francis promulgated Traditionis Custodes, when the majority of bishops were satisfied with his predecessor’s motu proprio Summorum Pontificum. The former personal secretary to Pope Benedict XVI then emphasized that Summorum Pontificum was the right path to fostering liturgical peace in the Roman rite, and he hopes it will be restored by Pope Leo.

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