United States Cardinal Raymond Burke will celebrate a special Traditional Latin Mass in St Peter’s Basilica on October 25 in a return to a prior custom, suspended since 2022, of an annual pilgrimage of Catholics devoted to the Latin Mass. Source: National Catholic Register.
Cardinal Burke will celebrate the Solemn Pontifical Mass, a high Latin Mass said by a bishop, at the Altar of the Chair on the second day of the October 24–26 Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage, the event’s official website says.
The cardinal also celebrated a Latin Mass at the Altar of the Chair for the pilgrimage in 2014.
In 2023 and 2024, the pilgrimage was not able to receive authorisation to celebrate the Latin Mass at the Altar of the Chair in St Peter’s Basilica from the basilica’s liturgy office, according to organiser Christian Marquant.
The Office of Liturgical Ceremonies of St Peter’s Basilica and the director of the Holy See Press Office did not immediately respond to CNA’s request for comment on this assertion.
The Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage, in its 14th year, brings people “ad Petri Sedem” (“to the See of Peter”) to give “testimony of the attachment that binds numerous faithful throughout the whole world to the traditional liturgy,” according to the pilgrimage website.
Pope Francis severely restricted the use of the Latin Mass in 2021 and with subsequent legislation.
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Cardinal Burke to Celebrate Traditional Latin Mass in St Peter’s Basilica (By Hannah Brockhaus, CNA via National Catholic Register)
