AP explains the significance of cardinal Burke’s Latin Mass

Описание: (25 Oct 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Vatican City - 25 October 2025
1.⁠ ⁠Mid of Cardinal Burke entering St. Peter’s Basilica
2.⁠ ⁠Wide of Cardinal Burke processing through the Basilica
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicole Winfield, The Associated Press:
“A top American Cardinal, Raymond Burke, has celebrated a traditional Latin Mass at the altar of St. Peter's Basilica. This is the first time in several years that someone of his rank has been allowed to celebrate in the Basilica. That, after Pope Francis greatly restricted the use of the Latin Mass, he said it had become a source of division in the Church."
4.⁠ ⁠Mid of Cardinal Burke wearing mitre
5.⁠ ⁠Close of Cardinal Burke’s hands with ceremonial gloves
6.⁠ ⁠Wide of faithful during Mass
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicole Winfield, The Associated Press:
"Pope Leo XIV, though, gave his explicit permission for this Mass to take place and several thousand people participated. It was standing room only in the Basilica. They expressed hope that in the future they would be able to celebrate it more widely under Leo."
8.⁠ ⁠Mid of of priests listening
9.⁠ ⁠Close of hands joined in prayer
10.⁠ ⁠Mid of Cardinal Burke at altar
11. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Cardinal Burke:
“Today’s Pontifical Mass is celebrated according to the most ancient form of the Roman Rite, the Usus Antiquior. The Church marks the eighteenth anniversary of the promulgation of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, by which Pope Benedict XVI made it possible to celebrate the Mass regularly according to this form, in use since the time of Saint Gregory the Great.”
12.⁠ ⁠Mid of Cardinal Burke continuing the celebration of the Mass
13.⁠ ⁠Close of women praying
14.⁠ ⁠Mid of Cardinal Burke giving the blessing in Latin
STORYLINE:
A top American cardinal celebrated a traditional Latin Mass on Saturday in St. Peter's Basilica with the explicit permission of Pope Leo XIV, thrilling traditionalist Catholics who had felt abandoned after Pope Francis greatly restricted the ancient liturgy.

A few thousand pilgrims, many of them young families with multiple children and the women covering their heads with lace veils, packed the altar area of the basilica to standing room-only capacity.

Cardinal Raymond Burke, the conservative American figurehead, presided over the 2 1/2-hour liturgy, which was rich in hymn, incense and priests bowing to the altar, their backs to the faithful in the pews.

For many traditionalists, the moment was a tangible sign that Leo might be more sympathetic to their plight, after they felt rejected by Francis and his 2021 crackdown on the old liturgy.

Francis had taken action after the spread of the ancient liturgy, especially in the United States, dovetailed with the rise of religiously inspired political conservatism and decline in church attendance at more progressive parishes.

AP Video and production by Veronica Andrea Sauchelli

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