Castrillón in Aparecida: Pope wishes to make 1962 books available to Latin Church

Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos in Aparecida, addressing Latin American bishops, May 16, 2007:

The Holy Father, who was for some years a member of this Commission, wishes it to become an organ of the Holy See with the proper and distinct end of preserving and maintaining the worth of the Traditional Latin Liturgy. Yet it must be said with all clarity that it is not a turning back, a return to the time before the 1970 reform. It is, instead, a generous offer of the Vicar of Christ who, as an expression of his pastoral will, wishes to put at the disposal of the whole Church all the treasures of the Latin Liturgy which for centuries has nourished the spiritual life of so many generations of Catholic faithful.The Holy Father wishes to preserve the immense spiritual, cultural, and aesthetic treasures linked to the Ancient Liturgy.

... For these reasons, the Holy Father has the intention of extending to the entire Latin Church the possibility of celebrating Holy Mass and the Sacraments according to the liturgical books promulgated by Blessed John XXIII in 1962. There is today a new and renewed interest for this liturgy, which has never been abolished and which, as we have said, is considered a treasure, and also for this reason [the interest] the Holy Father believes that the time has come to ease, as the first Cardinalatial Commission of 1986 had wished to do, the access to this liturgy, making it an extraordinary form of the one Roman Rite.

"Aparecida Notes: Castrillón to Bishops of Latin America Pope wishes to 'extend the possible use of the 1962 books to all Latin Church'" (Rorate Caeli, May 17, 2007). According to Rorate Caeli (May 19, 2007), the Italian Press has been filled with articles on the liberalization of the Traditional Roman Rite for the past two days as a result of Castrillón's address.