Press Release
The organisers of the annual Ad Petri Sedem ‘Summorum Pontificum’ Pilgrimage to Rome have announced that Raymond, Cardinal Burke, will celebrate the keynote Traditional Latin Mass of their pilgrimage at the Altar of the Throne in St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, at 3pm on Saturday 25th October.
Joseph Shaw, President of the FIUV, welcomed the news. “We are grateful to Pope Leo for his pastoral response to the request for a Traditional Mass in St Peter’s. This celebration symbolises the unity with the Holy Father so desired by Catholics attached to the ancient rite of Mass.”
Background
This is the first concrete indication of the attitude of Pope Leo XIV to the Traditional Mass, the Vetus Ordo or 1962 Missal. In the latter years of Pope Francis, the official view was that this form of the Mass, while not completely prohibited, should not be ‘promoted’ or given prominence, with high-profile celebrants in important churches.
It represents a major breakthrough for the pilgrimage, which for the last two years has been denied permission to have a Mass in St Peter’s, following Pope Francis’ restrictions on the Traditional Mass in his Apostolic Letter Traditionis Custodes in 2021.
Up to 2022 (including the pilgrimage immediately after the publication of Traditionis Custodes) Mass in the traditional form had been celebrated for a growing number of pilgrims by many distinguished celebrants, including Cardinal Burke himself in 2014. In 2023 and 2024, the pilgrimage visited St Peter’s for other prayers and devotions, but not Mass.
The Ad Petri Sedem Pilgrimage has in recent years has grown to more than 1,000 pilgrims, drawn from all over the world.
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The FIUV (Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce, or Una Voce International) is the federation of lay-led Una Voce or Latin Mass around the world, and is a member of the Coetus Summorum Pontificum which organises the Ad Petri Sedem Pilgrimage.
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