” “The Vatican Newsroom, in a release published this morning, informed that Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Letter "Motu proprio data" "Summorum Pontificum", about the use of the Roman Liturgy from before the 1970 reform, will be published tomorrow. "The Document states the release will enclose an explanatory Letter from the Holy Father". The "Summorum Pontificum" concerns the use of the 1962 Missal (promulgated by John XXIII, also known as the "Missal of Saint Pius V" or "Tridentine" because it is almost identical to the 1570 rite). In the 1962 Missal, the prayer "pro perfidis judaeis", which is specific to the Good Friday Liturgy, had disappeared, since it had already been abolished by John XXIII in 1959. The publication of the Motu proprio writes Gian Maria Vian on Avvenire today has been preceded "by a preliminary commotion that will not help anyone understand its meaning. Many people tried to guess that this text will be the umpteenth if not the highest betrayal of the Second Vatican … But can anyone really think the current Pope who from 1962 to 1965 had taken part in the work of the Council with commitment and passion would leave the road taken by the Second Vatican? Can anyone really want people to believe this, after the speech in which on 22nd December 2005 Benedict XVI reviewed the outcome of the Council forty years on?".” “
