Leo XIV to Address the Roman Rite in January Consistory - Italian Newspaper
The Mass of the Roman rite is a central topic at the first meeting of cardinals under Pope Leo XIV on January 7-8, reports IlGiornale.it on Tuesday.
A “Christmas letter” from Leo XIV, setting out the agenda, is to be sent to all cardinals this week.
Furthermore, the consistory with more than 200 Cardinals will address the issue of 'synodality'.
The cardinals have also been asked to prepare by rereading Francis’ texts "Evangelii gaudium" and "Praedicate evangelium".
Leo XIV had the invitation to his first consistory sent out on November 7 by the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Giovanni Battista Re, 91. The specific topics were initially not disclosed.
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My guess, he wants the cardinals to kill the Latin rite.
I couldn't care less about what Leo has to say about the traditional Mass. The Church has it as it's heart and it is the work of God himself. The Novus Ordo is the product of ill intentioned men who wanted to destroy the Church.
The working document should begin saying:
The only way the Novus Ordo Mass is valid is if and only if it is in continuity with the Vetus Ordo Mass. Therefore , it is incumbent on the NO priest/ parish to show the continuity. It is right and just that there be many VO Masses to serve as points of comparison. The onus is on the NO priest to show that what he does is Catholic.
Fake "turning point": Prevost is in 100% continuity with the false prophet Bergoglio who started his diabolical revolution with 2014 consistory and Walter Kasper launching his synodal path of dissolution of Church Teaching (no, we did not forget). Prevost is taking this diabolical revolution to the next level. By the way the "sacred college" during the past 13 years of this abomination acted as shameful collaborators and obviously continue to do the same. God help us!
Full text of the article in Il Giornale
Leo’s Turning Point: He Asks the Cardinals for Help
“In these closing weeks of 2025, the sense of waiting in the Vatican will not end with the conclusion of the Advent season. A more ‘worldly’ anticipation, in fact, concerns the extraordinary consistory scheduled for 7–8 January, convened by Leo XIV. The cardinals received their summons last 7 November from the dean, Giovanni Battista Re, and are expected by the Pope on the afternoon of the first Wednesday of the year, and again the following morning for the concelebration at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s Basilica.
The convocation of an extraordinary consistory falls within the prerogatives of the Pontiff and, as established by the Code of Canon Law, takes place ‘when particular needs of the Church or the treatment of more grave affairs suggests it.’ What had caused surprise in this instance was the absence of any stated motivation, an anomaly by comparison with past practice. We can anticipate, however, that in the coming hours a ‘Christmas’ letter from the Pope will reach the mailboxes of all the cardinals, in which the agenda of the long-awaited consistory will be set out.
Leo XIV has in fact taken pen and paper to write to his brothers, to whom he intends to restore that original role as principal collaborators in the governance of the universal Church, a role that was significantly diminished during the years of the Bergoglian pontificate. It is well known that Francis did not favour consulting the entire College of Cardinals, preferring instead to rely on a small group of trusted advisers—the so-called C9, which later became the C6. In 2022, Bergoglio convened a meeting of all the cardinals in Rome on Praedicate evangelium, but without allowing much room for discussion, not least because the apostolic constitution reforming the Curia had already entered into force almost three months earlier.
The limited involvement of the Sacred College was one of the most criticized aspects of the Bergoglian legacy during the pre-conclave congregations. Prevost showed himself aware of this and, two days after his election, during his first meeting with the cardinals, expressed his intention to meet them on a regular basis, thus bringing to a close a period of objective decline of the College of Cardinals. Now that the pontificate has passed the halfway mark of its first six months, Leo XIV has decided to give concrete form to that promise and has asked the cardinals to prepare for the meeting of 7–8 January 2026 by rereading two texts of Francis: Evangelii gaudium and Praedicate evangelium. These are ‘homework assignments’ which, on the one hand, invite reflection on the Church’s self-understanding and, on the other, bring back to the center the issue of the relationship between the Roman Curia and the exercise of power.
In his letter, Leo XIV also mentions synodality, which in many ways served as the manifesto of the Bergoglian pontificate, but which the current Pope interprets in his own manner. For Prevost, the ultimate outcome of synodality is communion. This same perspective also frames the final topic outlined in the letter setting the agenda for the forthcoming consistory: the liturgical question. We know how the liturgy has become—especially after the promulgation of Traditionis custodes in 2021—the principal battleground between different ecclesial sensibilities. The January consistory could thus provide an opportunity for the cardinals to engage one another on the stance to be adopted towards the increasingly numerous ‘traditionalist’ faithful who recognize the Second Vatican Council yet wish to continue celebrating the so-called Tridentine Mass.”