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No, I’m afraid if you look into the matter, you’ll find that it is a news agency that may have a bureau in Rome. It is not the official “mouthpiece” of the Holy See (it does have one). It’s entirely possible that the writer mispoke (and if we listen to the Cardinals of Pope John Paul II’s commission, not to mention Pope Benedict XVI, it become even more probable that the writer DID misspeak).The media statement I cited was from Vatican City, so you are implying that one must be very wary of the Vatican itself! I will not go in search of said document. I have read it however, and to be quite frank, when Paul IV forced the new mass on the faithful, by that very action he was suppressing the TLM. The devil needn’t wear a name tag to be identified as the devil.
The document that Pope Paul VI issued was *Missale Romanum. *Here is a link to it:
vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_p-vi_apc_19690403_missale-romanum_en.html
Perhaps you could point out what His Holiness and Their Eminences missed when they said that the Tridentine Mass had NOT been suppressed?
Finally, it is heartening and cheering, given the enormous number of postings by “traditionalists” in these fora on how we CAN’T trust the Holy See, on any number of topics ranging from the Mass to the consecration of Russia, that you are shocked and dismayed at the idea that someone MIGHT not trust the Holy See (and I DO trust the Holy See)…either that, or the richest of ironies.