Vatican: Silly Trads! Leaked Latin Mass Documents Mean Nothing

“If you could only see the other stuff that we won't show you, then you would know how the leaked stuff that we wouldn't show was not the whole story.”

In what can only be described as a panicked attempt to spin away the truth, the Vatican’s press office has stepped forward to address the leak of internal documents that challenge the entire justification behind Traditionis Custodes. But instead of transparency, we got Matteo Bruni, the Holy See’s top gaslighter spokesman, claiming that the documents are “very partial and incomplete,” a phrase that might as well be engraved on every postconciliar policy since 1965.

As one X poster sarcastically quipped:

This is the level of logic we’ve been handed. Trust us, just not the documents. Trust the pope, but ignore what he said in 2021. Trust the process, just don’t ask for receipts.

The Lie That Launched Traditionis Custodes

Recall the narrative Francis gave us when he published Traditionis Custodes in 2021. According to his letter, the bishops of the world had spoken with “clarity” and “unity” about the need to curtail the traditional Latin Mass. He claimed that their responses “preoccupy and sadden me” and therefore persuaded him “of the need to intervene.” It was supposed to be a pastoral act, rooted in global episcopal consensus.

Now, thanks to Vatican journalist Diane Montagna, we have a leaked section of the Vatican’s actual synthesis of that 2020 questionnaire. It says the opposite.

Far from widespread concern or hostility, the majority of bishops were reportedly satisfied with the implementation of Summorum Pontificum and warned that changing the status quo would “cause more harm than good.” It was the minority, the usual suspects, who pushed for suppression. Yet they won the day.

And when caught in the act, the Vatican response? “Well, it’s incomplete.”

The Bruni Shuffle: Obfuscate, Don’t Deny

Bruni wouldn’t confirm the documents were genuine, but he also didn’t deny them. Instead, he said they were “presumably part of one of the documents” used to inform the decision and that they only represented a “partial and incomplete” version of the process.

Translation: Yes, they’re real, but we want to distract you with unverifiable hearsay and unnamed reports you’ll never see.

Even more shamelessly, Bruni gave this damage control performance at a press conference for a new Creation Care Mass inspired by Laudato Si’, a surreal moment of postconciliar liturgical theater that underscores just how far removed today’s Rome is from the Roman Rite it seeks to erase.

Indietrismo and the War on Memory

Let’s not forget what Francis himself said in 2023, in a revealing interview with Hungarian Jesuits:

“The danger today is indietrismo, the reaction against the modern. It is a nostalgic disease… I saw that the good pastoral measures put in place by John Paul II and Benedict XVI were being used in an ideological way, to go backward. It was necessary to stop this indietrismo.”

There you have it. The real “danger” was never division. It was never lack of unity. It was nostalgia. It was the memory of Catholic worship as it was for centuries. The TLM had to go not because it caused division, but because it made visible what the modern Church wants desperately to forget.

Francis calls nostalgia a disease. That says more about him than it does about the faithful he punishes.

The Real Problem? The Wrong Bishops Won

As Joseph Shaw aptly pointed out, what this leak shows is that only the views of the minority, those bishops who “really disliked the TLM,” were acted upon. The rest were ignored. The whole process reeks of rigged consultation dressed up as synodal discernment. The Vatican already knew what it wanted. The survey was never about understanding. It was about cover.

And now that the curtain has been pulled back, Rome is feigning confusion, saying: It’s not the whole document. But the part that was leaked is damning enough.

Why hasn’t the full report been published? Why was the CDF’s actual synthesis buried and overwritten by Francis’s misleading narrative? Why is “more documentation” always invoked but never shown?

We all know why.

A Church That Cannot Admit Error

This is the deeper problem. Even when the facts come out, facts that expose a manipulative, top-down campaign to crush the Latin Mass, there is no apology, no self-correction, no act of contrition. Only more spin, more appeals to “discernment,” and more motu proprios masquerading as organic development.

The post-Vatican II Church is incapable of reversing course. It would rather lie, bury, and gaslight than admit it was wrong. Because to admit error would be to admit rupture, and rupture is what the reformers have denied for sixty years.

But now the rupture is visible, and no press office talking point can plaster over it.

Conclusion: “Very Partial and Incomplete” Is the Point

Let’s call this what it is: the modern Vatican’s Magisterium of the Unsaid. You’ll never get the full report, only vague references to “additional documentation.” You’ll never see transparency, only appeals to authority. And you’ll never be told the truth, because the truth is that the traditional Latin Mass was not a threat to unity, it was a threat to the postconciliar regime.

This is not just about liturgy. It’s about the Church’s memory, identity, and continuity. And that, not nostalgia, is what terrifies them.