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Traditionis Custodes: German Catholic Dioceses Make No Immediate Changes

Andrew Gardner via Wikimedia (CC BY 4.0).Since the 1980s, the diocese has provided priests to celebrate Masses using the 1962 Roman Missal, at the request of local Catholics.

The motu proprio, which entered into force the day it was released, said that it is a bishop’s “exclusive competence” to authorize Traditional Latin Masses in his diocese.