Source: LifeSiteNews.com
The Archbishop of Perth has removed a much-loved priest from the thriving traditional community he was running, and banned him from saying the traditional Mass, in the latest implementation of Pope Francis’s 2021 restrictions on the liturgy.
In a statement issued December 11, Perth’s Archbishop Timothy Costelloe announced that Father Michael Rowe was to be stripped of his role as rector of the thriving Latin Mass community of St. Anne’s. (See LifeSite’s archive of reports on Fr. Rowe and his traditional community in Perth.)
Citing his 2022 implementations of Pope Francis’ 2021 Traditionis Custodes – in which Costelloe tasked priests to specifically request permission to continue offering the traditional Mass – Costelloe wrote that Rowe had not complied with the archbishop’s requirements, and thus was stripped of his permission to offer the traditional Mass.
As of today’s date, Fr. Rowe has not sought my authorisation to celebrate the Mass using the Roman Missal promulgated by Saint John XXIII in 1962.
Therefore I have informed Fr. Rowe that as he has not sought the necessary authorisation required by canon law, and as he has not been authorised to celebrate the Mass using the Roman Missal promulgated by Saint John XXIII in 1962 in the Archdiocese of Perth, he is not authorised to celebrate Mass using the Roman Missal promulgated by Saint John XXIII in 1962 at the church of St Anne, Belmont, or anywhere else in the Archdiocese of Perth.
Costelloe went on to state that Rowe was not banned from ministry in the Archdiocese, as he retained faculties to offer the Novus Ordo, but that he was only allowed to offer this form of the Mass….