Latin in the liturgy – in saecula saeculorum

The reforms to the Roman rite marked the greatest changes to worship in the Catholic Church in centuries… It was Benedict’s hope that the ordinary and the extraordinary forms would not only co-exist without stoking division, but mutually enrich each other. Francis hoped to restore unity to the celebration of the Roman rite while allowing occasional use of the pre-Vatican II Missal as a “pastoral concession”. How Leo steers between the hopes of his predecessors and the prayers of the worshippers at the shrine of the Blessed Sacrament in Covent Garden will be among the trickiest challenges of his papacy.

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