Use of this form is still permitted under the conditions mentioned in article 9 of the 2007 motu proprio Summorum Pontificum.

Under Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, Roman Catholic bishops, priests, and deacons are again permitted to use the 1962 edition of the Roman Breviary, promulgated by Pope John XXIII to satisfy their obligation to recite the Divine Office every day.

In 1965 Pope Paul VI decreed in his motu proprio Ad Purpuratorum Patrum that patriarchs of the Eastern Catholic Churches who were named cardinals would also be part of the episcopal order, ranked after the six cardinal bishops of the suburbicarian sees ( who had been relieved of direct responsibilities for those sees by Pope John XXIII three years earlier ).

The Credo of the People of God is a profession of faith that Pope Paul VI published with the motu proprio Solemni hac liturgia of 30 June 1968.

* Ecclesia Dei is the motu proprio of 2 July 1988 that Pope John Paul II issued in response to the Ecône consecrations.

This form of the Mass remained essentially unchanged for 400 years until Pope Paul VI's revision of the Roman Missal in 1969 – 70, after which it has become widely known as the Tridentine Mass ; use of the last pre-1969 edition of the Missal, that by Pope John XXIII in 1962, is permitted without limitation for private celebration of the Mass and, since July 2007, is allowed also, under certain conditions, for public use, as laid down in the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum of Pope Benedict XVI.

In the Missal this Code of Rubrics replaced two of the documents in the 1920 edition ; and the Pope's motu proprio Rubricarum instructum took the place of the superseded the Apostolic constitution Divino afflatu of Pope Pius X.

The Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei is a commission of the Roman Catholic Church established by Pope John Paul II's motu proprio Ecclesia Dei of 2 July 1988 for the care of those former followers of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre who broke with him as a result of his consecration of four priests of his Society of St. Pius X as bishops on 30 June 1988, an act the Holy See deemed illicit and schismatic.

Set up by Pope John Paul II by a motu proprio of 15 January 1993, it is presided over by the Cardinal Secretary of State and includes also the Secretary and the Undersecretary for Relations with States, and the Secretaries of the Congregations for the Eastern Churches, for the Clergy, and for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, and of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

It was instituted by Pope John Paul II on 1 January 1989 by an apostolic letter in the form of a motu proprio.

* February 14 – Pope Paul VI issues a motu proprio deleting many names from the Roman calendar of saints ( including Valentine, who was celebrated on that day ).

The 14 February 1961 Instruction of the Congregation for Rites on the application to local calendars of Pope John XXIII's motu proprio Rubricarum instructum of 25 July 1960 decreed that " the feast of ' Saint Anacletus ', on whatever ground and in whatever grade it is celebrated, is transferred to 26 April, under its right name, ' Saint Cletus '.

Use of this 1960 calendar, which is included in the 1962 edition of the Roman Missal, continues to be authorized under the conditions indicated in the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum ; but the feast has been removed from the General Roman Calendar since 1969.

Following the recommendations of the council ( in Lumen Gentium 29 ), in 1967 Pope Paul VI issued the motu proprio Sacrum Diaconatus Ordinem, restoring the ancient practice of ordaining to the diaconate men who were not candidates for priestly ordination.

Of this rite, what is now the " ordinary " or, to use a word employed in the Letter of Pope Benedict XVI accompanying the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, the " normal " form is that which developed from the Second Vatican Council to the present day, while the form in force in 1962 is authorized as an extraordinary form of the Roman Rite without restriction in private celebrations and under certain conditions in public celebrations.

Within three months of his coronation, Pius X published his motu proprio Tra le sollecitudini ( possibly co-written by his friend Lorenzo Perosi ).

Pius X said in his 1903 motu proprio Tra le sollecitudine: The primary and indispensable source of the true

But, since Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio, Summorum Pontificum, use of the Tridentine rite has increased ; this, along with other Papal comments on the use of appropriate liturgical music, is promoting a new plainsong revival.

Thus, in his motu proprio Summorum Pontificum of 7 July 2007, Pope Benedict XVI referred to this form of the Roman-Rite Mass by linking it with " the Roman Missal promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1970 ".

In his letter to bishops which accompanied his 2007 motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, Pope Benedict XVI wrote that " the Missal published by Paul VI and then republished in two subsequent editions by John Paul II, obviously is and continues to be the normal Form – the Forma ordinaria – of the Eucharistic Liturgy.

" Since then, the term " ordinary form " is often used to distinguish this form of the Roman Rite of Mass from the Tridentine Mass, the 1962 edition of which Pope Benedict declared in his motu proprio to be an authorized " extraordinary form ".

In accordance with Pope Paul VI's motu proprio Ministeria quaedam of 15 August 1972, " first tonsure is no longer conferred ".

Previous traditions that allowed some other bishops to use the pallium were ended by Pope Paul VI in a motu proprio in 1978.

In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI issued a motu proprio entitled Summorum Pontificum, accompanied by a letter to the world's bishops.

In his motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, Pope Benedict XVI has permitted this to be read in the vernacular language when Mass is celebrated with the people.

Since they were never part of the Mass itself and were never included even in an appendix of the Roman Missal, specifically the 1962 typical edition, it is unclear whether they are to be considered obligatory in present-day public celebrations of the Tridentine Mass in accordance with the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum.

Following repeated rumours that the use of the Tridentine Mass would be liberalised, the Pope issued a motu proprio called Summorum Pontificum on 7 July 2007, together with an accompanying letter to the world's Bishops.

* Aillet, Marc, The old Mass and the new: explaining the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum of Pope Benedict XVI ( Ignatius Press 2010 ISBN 978-1-58617-362-3 )

Accordingly, the 1962 Roman Missal, the edition whose continued use as an extraordinary form of the Roman Rite is authorized by the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, also has no mention of her.

The 1962 version, whose use is authorized by the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum as an extraordinary form of the Roman Rite, divides liturgical days into I, II, III, and IV class days, as decreed by Pope John XXIII in 1960.

It is kept as a commemoration by Traditionalist Roman Catholics who — in accordance with the authorization given by Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum of July 7, 2007 — use the General Roman Calendar of 1962 and the liturgy of Pope John XXIII's 1962 edition of the Roman Missal, and, as a Simple Feast, by Traditionalist Roman Catholics who use the General Roman Calendar as in 1954.

All clerics are free to use the Liturgy of the Hours or the traditional Roman Breviary, according to the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, to fulfill this obligation.

On 7 July 2007, the Vatican released Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio entitled, Summorum Pontificum which permitted more widespread celebration of Mass according to the " Missal promulgated by Pope John XXIII in 1962 ".

" The ADL called the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum " a theological setback in the religious life of Catholics and a body blow to Catholic-Jewish relations, after 40 years of progress between the Church and the Jewish people.

The maniple is still required for the celebration of the 1962 Missale Romanum in accordance with the 2007 motu proprio Summorum Pontificum.

Their observance in the Latin Church subsequently declined, but the observance has revived somewhat since 1988 ( when Pope John Paul II issued his decree Ecclesia Dei Adflicta ) and especially since 2007 ( when Pope Benedict XVI issued his motu proprio called Summorum Pontificum ) when the use of older rites was encouraged.

Pope Benedict XVI, in his motu proprio Summorum Pontificum ( 2007 ), permitted any bishop, priest, or deacon ( or anyone not bound to pray the Office, but desiring to do so ) to use this form of the Divine Office.

The 2007 motu proprio Summorum pontificum has authorized this older form of the Mass, known as the Tridentine Mass, not only for the Fraternity, but for all Latin Rite priests as an extraordinary form of the Roman Rite.

In response to the motu proprio, Summorum Pontificum of Pope Benedict, Cardinal Tettamanzi controversially stated that the document did not apply to the northern Italian archdiocese since it uses the Ambrosian Rite rather than the Roman one

*" Summorum Pontificum ", the Apostolic Letter of Pope Benedict XVI given motu proprio

With the motu proprio Valde solliciti of 30 November 1952 ordered that the train of the cappa magna should be shortened by about half ( from 15 metres to 7 ).

On 7 July 2007, Pope Benedict XVI issued the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum.

The conditions indicated in the document to which Pope John Paul referred were replaced on 7 July 2007 by those indicated in the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum.

Pope Benedict XVI revoked the directives on 7 July 2007, replacing them with the norms enunciated in his motu proprio Summorum Pontificum.

On March 7, 1963, the feast of the University's patron Saint Thomas Aquinas, Pope John XXIII, with the motu proprio Dominicanus Ordo, raised the Angelicum to the rank of Pontifical University.

The Pontifical Commission was given additional functions by the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, issued by Pope Benedict XVI on 7 July 2007, to exercise the authority of the Holy See, supervising the observance and application of the dispositions of that motu proprio, as described below.

Clearly, the Cardinal already knew the text of the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, which Pope Benedict published on 7 July 2007, which gave the Pontifical Commission additional functions: it was to exercise the authority of the Holy See, supervising the observance and application of the dispositions of the motu proprio, and, if a bishop was unable to satisfy the request of a stable group of the kind mentioned, the matter was to be referred to the Commission, either by the bishop himself or by others.