Roche’s move to further restrict Latin Mass violates Church law: canon lawyers

Cdl. Roche appears to be looking to further restrict the traditional Mass by using methods which canon lawyers are describing as illegal.

VATICAN CITY (LSN) — Cardinal Arthur Roche, the Prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation (Dicastery) for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (CDW), is reportedly strong-arming bishops into enforcing the Vatican’s restrictions on the traditional Mass, in a manner described as being an abuse of the Church’s Canon Law.

Prominent liturgist and t…