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The Pope's merciless war against the Old Rite

17 July 2021

10:58 PM

17 July 2021

10:58 PM

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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