Cardinal Burke to Celebrate Mass in St Peter’s Basilica for the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage

We are very glad to share the news that His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke will celebrate a solemn pontifical Mass in St Peter’s basilica on October 25th, as part of this year’s Populus Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage to Rome. This Mass was the highlight of the annual pilgrimage event for several years, but was then forbidden for the last two. In addition, His Eminence Matteo Cardinal Zuppi, archbishop of Bologna and president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, will once again celebrate a pontifical Vespers for the pilgrimage, this year in the ancient basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina.   

Let us be thankful to God that He has inspired such paternal charity in our Holy Father Leo, and pray that He may inspire him to restore the wise provisions of Pope Benedict XVI’s motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, from which the pilgrimage takes its name.