France: Traditionis Custodes Is Not Respected
In at least four parish churches 'official' masses are celebrated: Saint-Eugène-Sainte-Cécile, Sainte-Jeanne-de-Chantal, Sainte-Odile and Saint-Roch. Another 'official' mass is celebrated in Notre-Dame du Lys, which is not a parish church.
The celebration of Masses in parishes would require authorisation from the Dicastery for the Liturgy. But this permission was never given.
This is also the case for most of the numerous parish churches in France where Holy Mass is "officially" celebrated without Roman authorisation.
This matter was raised in an article published by Notitiae, the official organ of the Dicastery for Divine Worship.
In its issue of 2 August 2024, it gives a list of the decrees by which it authorised the celebration of Holy Mass in parish churches between 1 January and 31 December 2022, that is, at the time when the Traditionis custodes was introduced.
According to the list of decrees, the Dicastery for the Liturgy has "authorised" the celebration of Holy Mass in 56 parish churches in 10 countries of the world (34 in the United States, 5 in Germany, 3 in Poland, 5 in Great Britain, 4 in Canada, 1 in Lithuania, 1 in Italy, 1 in Hungary and 1 in Austria). But none in France, not even in Paris.
During the ad limina visit of the French bishops after Traditionis Custodes in 2021, Mgr Ulrich, Archbishop of Paris, even presented this Parisian solution to Francis, who approved it.
It is clear that the Roman officials responsible for the suppression of the Holy Mass, led by Cardinal Roche, Prefect for Divine Worship, and Mgr Viola, Secretary, are particularly out of touch with the reality on the ground, concludes Marquant:
"Traditionis custodes is a largely unenforceable law, as several French bishops have privately admitted".
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