I've heard some persons say the Holy Father has never offered the traditional Mass before, but St.Peter's fraternity says differently. Only a few photographs, though.
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Easter 1990: Cardinal Ratzinger visits the motherhouse (in Wigratzbad, Bavaria) and offers Mass in the Traditional rite
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LinkFr.Berg also said recently that they had trained over a 100 priests to say the Mass according to the 1962 Missal since
Summorum Pontificuм.
It is precisely because
lex orandi, lex credendi that it is realistic to say that with the return of the traditional Mass to prominence, there will be a return on the part of lukewarm priests and prelates to traditional doctrine and treaching.
I know there are many who wont be satisfied with this and who expect things to change overnight without their lifting a finger, but the fact is, while many theories are flying around, in the meanwhile, many souls remain estranged from orthodoxy in teaching and orthopraxy in worship. What of them?