Open letter defends TLM against Cardinal Cupich’s ‘spectacle’ claim

Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register

Thursday, November 20, 2025

An Italian expert liturgist has written an open letter to Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, criticizing the cardinal’s recent assertions, published by the Vatican’s news website, that the traditional Latin Mass is a “spectacle” that prevents “active participation” of all the baptized.  In his letter, Father Nicola Bux, a former consultor during Benedict XVI’s pontificate to the then-Congregations for the Doctrine of the Faith and Causes of Saints, took issue with the cardinal’s argument, saying that he had effectively misunderstood both the aims of the Council Fathers and the historical meaning and importance of the traditional Roman Rite.