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Mass Ban in St Peter's: Francis Cardinal Attempts to Justify the Measure

Cardinal Gambetti, the Archpriest of Saint Peter's Basilica, justified Francis' Mass ban in Saint Peter's saying on VaticanNews.va (June 22) that …
Hugh N. Cry
Vatican II baby
Tesa
Solved
Ultraviolet
Ah, Tesa :) Unlike you, the Vatican is trying to find a problem for their solution.
John A Cassani
It is beyond laughable to hear anyone try to promote the desirability of concelebration, aside from certain special occasions. When a priest is a concelebrant, it is as though he is not celebrating Mass at all. I have witnessed large daily concelebrated Masses where priests showed up after the Gospel to concelebrate! Concelebration promotes laziness among priests. Every priest should invoke their …More
It is beyond laughable to hear anyone try to promote the desirability of concelebration, aside from certain special occasions. When a priest is a concelebrant, it is as though he is not celebrating Mass at all. I have witnessed large daily concelebrated Masses where priests showed up after the Gospel to concelebrate! Concelebration promotes laziness among priests. Every priest should invoke their right to celebrate their own daily Mass.
Hound of Heaven
Some cardinals have become 'unhinged'.
Ultraviolet
@Tesa -and as @philosopher astutely noted Canon Law 902 states priests are "completely free to celebrate the Eucharist individually". It would be a simple matter to schedule all priests withing to celebrate individual Masses for the same times and those wishing to concelebrate for other times.
Tesa
The reason given by the Cardinal for the restriction of priests wanting to celebrate the TLM in St Peter's is concelebration. The same reason was given by Dijon Archbishop Minnerath for kicking out the FSSP.