Quo primum, Pius V novus ordo?

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Let all everywhere adopt and observe what has been handed down by the Holy Roman Church, the Mother and Teacher of the other churches, and let Masses not be sung or read according to any other formula than that of this Missal published by Us. This ordinance applies henceforth, now, and forever, throughout all the provinces of the Christian world, to all patriarchs, cathedral churches, collegiate and parish churches, be they secular or religious, both of men and of women – even of military orders – and of churches or chapels without a specific congregation in which conventual Masses are sung aloud in choir or read privately in accord with the rites and customs of the Roman Church.
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How does the Novus Ordo not violate this? Can someone help me figure this out? Thank you in advance! I hope everyone is having an awesome day!
 
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I may be wrong, but an apostolic constitution, AFAIK, is not infallible.
 
Because this is a disciplinary decree. The supreme authority in the Church can abrogate anything it previously laid down. This kind of language is common in various disciplinary contexts. Not only was his Missal modified to various extents shortly thereafter and at other points, the same language was used with reference to the breviary at the same time, but that was reformed in a similarly radical way as the novus Ordo under the pontificate of St. Pius X.

At the dogmatic level the Council of Trent laid down this truth of the faith:
It furthermore declares, that this power has ever been in the Church, that, in the dispensation of the sacraments, their substance being untouched, it may ordain,–or change, what things soever it may judge most expedient, for the profit of those who receive, or for the veneration of the said sacraments, according to the difference of circumstances, times, and places.
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If your interpretation of Quo Primum were true, the Pope would have been taking this power away from the Church, and that is impossible.
 
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Sorry wasn’t trying to interpret merely understand. This got posted in another catholic forum and I just didn’t know how to respond.
 
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I may be wrong, but an apostolic constitution, AFAIK, is not infallible.
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It’s not the class of document that makes an act of the Pope infallible (and therefore irreformable), but the content. Here, there is no truth of the faith being definitively judgment for the whole Church. God did not reveal a specific missal for the whole Church.

Some Apostolic Constitutions do contain infallible judgments (e.g. Benedictus Deus of Benedict XII among various others).
 
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