Tim Stanley

The Pope’s merciless war against the Old Rite

He is known as the Pope of mercy, but this is decidedly unmerciful (Getty images / Guglielmo Mangiapane)

I am going to have to boil this down as crudely as I can, because it’s a complex subject with a simple message, but the Pope is attempting to make it as hard as possible to say, and thus attend, the Old Rite Mass. This is the form of Mass most Catholics went to before the 1970s.

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