Report: With Leo XIV’s Approval, Roche Shuts the Door on the Ultratraditionalists

A Spanish daily now reports the cardinal’s January liturgy document was commissioned and approved by the pope himself, with “not a single comma” changed. Rome’s direction is unmistakable.

An illustration of Pope Leo XIV and Cardinal Arthur Roche, the Vatican’s liturgy chief. Roche said in a July 29 interview that Leo will keep Pope Francis’s restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass, and a Spanish daily reports the pope personally approved Roche’s defense of them.

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