In the midst of the Cold War, alerted by the loss of faithful and the advance of secularization, the Catholic Church decided that it should modernize, for example, increasing its presence in the media to preach the gospel. During the celebration of the Second Vatican Council, the canonical authorities, in order to encourage the active participation of the faithful in the liturgy, agreed to democratize the mass. For this reason, the institution decided to address the renewal of the Catholic rite, which culminated with the approval, on October 6, 1963, of the right to officiate the mass no longer only in Latin, until then obligatory, but in each vernacular language and facing the public. Thus, at last Catholics could see and understand the priest who officiated the mass.
On July 7, 207, Pope Benedict XVI would authorize the free use of the Latin mass, according to the traditional Tridentine rite. Cardinal Lefebvre’s congregation would applaud the gesture of rapprochement, but liberal Catholic groups would fear that it would represent a setback with respect to Vatican II. The Pope was quick to warn that this gesture towards the traditionalists did not mean a step back,
