And speaking of more rumors… Everybody’s getting into the act. That most well-worn of rumors is making the rounds again, speculating that Pope Benedict XVI will issue a motu proprio allowing a universal indult for the Tridentine Mass. Yes, I do believe this is going to happen, but everyone’s been predicting it since the Pope was installed.

So is now the time? As I’ve said before, I have a sneaking suspicion that the apostolic exhortation for last year’s Synod on the Eucharist, expected next month, will furnish the occasion for some “reform of the reform” and a universal indult. And I do believe that the two will go together. I don’t Pope Benedict is interested in just returning to the Tridentine, but he wants to return to that organic development of the Liturgy that was promised from Vatican II.

It will also be very interesting to see how Traditionalist groups will react. Some will jump for joy, while others will dismiss it as an evil plot by the sedevacantist Masonic plant to deceive True Catholics in joining the apostate neo-Church, or however it goes.

Really, their problems go much deeper than the Tridentine v. Novus Ordo.

The pope is expected to issue a document “motu proprio,” or on his own initiative, which will address the concerns of “various traditionalists,” said the source, who asked not to be named.

The source said the new permission, or indult, was a papal decision, but was being done in cooperation with agencies of the Roman Curia. He would not elaborate on the extent of the indult, when it would be established or how it would work.

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