The Pope, the Mass, and Tradition

• "Pope Benedict uses older ritual for his private Mass" (Catholic World News, July 16, 2007):

  Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news), who recently issued a motu proprio allowing all Catholic priests to celebrate the old Latin Mass, uses the older ritual himself for his private Mass, CWN has learned.
  
  Informed sources at the Vatican have confirmed reports that the Holy Father regularly celebrates Mass using the 1962 Roman Missal.
  
  Update:Please note the retraction of this claim based on further information.

• Sandro Magister, "Liturgy and Ecumenism: How to Apply Vatican Council II" (www.chiesa, July 17, 2007):

  For Benedict XVI, there must not be rupture between the Church’s past and present, but rather continuity. He has given proof of this with his latest decisions – receiving less criticism than foreseen, and much more agreement. The comments of Ruini, Amato, De Marco.

• "Critical Mass: Life After 'Te Deum'" (Man with black hat, July 16, 2007)
• "[International] Summorum Pontificum Contact Database" (LumenGentleman Catholic Studies)
• Thomas E. Woods, "Benedict and the Great Liberation" (LewRockwell.com):

  For several decades, not only the Catholic left but also the "orthodox" Catholic right condemned supporters of the 1962 Missal as disobedient, wicked, schismatic – you name it – because they believed that what was beautiful and venerable yesterday could not cease to be beautiful and venerable today. They likewise found it hard to believe that they were considered a little bit crazy, perhaps even in need of counseling, because they longed for the traditional Mass, the very thing they had been taught their whole lives to venerate. They rightly refused to believe that being Catholic meant living in a scenario straight out of Orwell or Kafka.

• "Remembering Klaus Gamber" (Rorate Caeli, July 6, 2007)
• "Remembering Tito Casini -
  'The Mass will rise again!'" (Rorate Caeli, July 2, 2007)
• "Justice" (Rorate Caeli, July 12, 2007):

  The beautiful words of that great French hero of the Traditional Mass, Jean Madiran, who has lived to see the miracle, remembering the names of some who died in the battlefield ...

• "Fellay speaks" (Rorate Caeli, July12, 2007)
• "Laguérie speaks" (Rorate Caeli, July 15, 2007) [The Superior of the Institut du Bon Pasteur (Institute of the Good Shepherd-IBP)]