‘Like a Museum’: Dead Silence in St. Peter’s Basilica as Suppression of Individual Masses Comes into Force

Empty side altar inside St. Peter's Basilica March 22 as a new directive suppressing individual Masses goes into effect. — Empty side altar inside St. Peter’s Basilica March 22 as a new directive suppressing individual Masses goes into effect.

Cardinal Gerhard Müller, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, told the Register March 22 that the directive will have the effect of making clergy working in the Vatican “more like functionaries and with less priestly identity.”