"Traditiones Custodes Broke Benedict's Heart": Archbishop Gänswein.
In a new interview, shared here by Corpus Christi Watershed, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, Prefect of the Papal Household, and personal secretary to Pope Benedict XVI has told how Traditiones Custodes , the poorly written and rushed reversal of his Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum , broke the old pope's heart. The interviewer asks: "So, Pope Benedict’s lifting of restrictions on celebrating the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite according to the 1962 Missal did not last as long as he intended. As Pope Emeritus, he was around to see the promulgation of Pope Francis’ Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes . Was he disappointed?" Archbishop Gänswein replies: "It hit him pretty hard. I believe it broke Pope Benedict’s heart to read the new Motu proprio, because his intention had been to help those who simply found a home in the Missale Vetustum—to find inner peace, to find liturgical peace—in order to draw them away from Marcel Lefebvre. And if you think about how many cen...