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Pope cracked down on Latin Mass to halt ideological ‘restorationism’

Pope Francis has told brother Jesuits he has suppressed access to the Traditional Latin Mass because it was being misused “in an ideological way.” He said the TLM movement is a form of indietrismo, an Italian word for “backwardness,” which runs counter to the intentions of his predecessors when they liberated the TLM from restrictions imposed after the Council. [1]