In his open message to priests, dated January 2, 2022, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò begins with the admission that he had served the “Holy Apostolic Mass” as a youth; that it was the Mass of his ordination in March, 1968; and that it soon became a distant memory. He admits that he had been away from the “Old Mass” for almost fifty years.
Archbishop Viganò does not question the validity of the Novus Ordo Mass. Rather, he affirms the validity of both rites of the Mass: “The theologian…