Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago publishes policy

For the implementation of “Traditionis custodes”

 For the implementation of “Traditionis custodes”  ING-053
30 December 2021
Just two days after Christmas, on the Feast of St John the Evangelist, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, has issued a policy governing the celebration of the pre-Vatican rite in that Archdiocese. This policy follows the 18 December response to questions received by the Congregation for Divine Worship in the wake of the July publication of the Motu proprio Traditionis Custodes in which Pope Francis restored to local ordinaries the responsibility to govern the celebration of the liturgy using the 1962 Missal in their dioceses. Chicago thus becomes the first Diocese in the United States to provide concrete directives regarding the new norms established by the Pope. This local policy enters into effect in the Archdiocese of Chicago on 25 January 2022. Cardinal Cupich explains in a cover letter accompanying the new policy that he began a ...

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