Bishop Athanasius Schneider has asked Pope Leo XIV to publish an Apostolic Constitution liberalizing permission for the traditional Latin Mass.
The future of the traditional Mass has been one of the most prominent and controversial questions that many have anticipated Pope Leo XIV might address in the early stages of his pontificate. In a July interview, he professed himself somewhat ignorant of the particulars, but since then has met with key proponents of the traditional Mass, such as Cardinals Raymond Burke and Robert Sarah, along with Bishop Athanasius Schneider.
Schneider has hitherto kept a prudential silence about his December 18 meeting, but following the recent extraordinary consistory has revealed details about the suggestion he put to the Pope regarding the traditional Mass.
The auxiliary bishop conveyed to the Pontiff the idea that he “do a more solemn document, not just a Motu Proprio as Benedict XVI did and then the anti-Motu Proprio of Pope Francis Traditionis Custodes.”
Such a document should be carefully prepared, said Schneider, in order not to continue the style of Traditionis Custodes which put itself in firm opposition to Summorum Pontificum. “I think it would not be so fitting to again do an anti-Motu Proprio against Traditionis Custodes, but simply a more solemn document above the Motu Proprios.”
As for what legislation might be contained in a potential document, Schneider stated that he would advise the Pope “do a new regularization of the entire issue of the traditional Latin Mass, again independently of the Motu Proprios. Do a new, solemn regularization with this, giving the complete freedom and the co-existence of both forms, pacific co-existence, with no limitations and impediments of both forms.”
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