Dans La réforme liturgique en question de Mgr Klaus Gamber (version anglaise ci-dessous, désolé). C'est moi qui met en gras.

The argument could be made that the pope's authority to introduce a new liturgical rite, that is, to do so without a decision by a council, can be derived from the "full and highest power" (plena et suprema potestas) he has in the Church, as cited by the First Vatican Council, i.e.,power over matters quae ad clisciplinam et regimen ecclesiae per totum orbem diffusae pertinent ("that pertain to the discipline and rule of the Churchspread outover all the world") (Denzinger, 1831).

However, the term disciplina in no way applies to the liturgical rite of the Mass, particulaly in light of the fact that the popes have repeatedly observed that the rite is founded on apostolic tradition.* For this reason alone, the rite cannot fall into the category of "discipline and rule of the Church." To this we can add that there is not a single document, including the Codex luris Canonici, in which there is a specific statement that the pope,in his function as the supreme pastor of the Church, has the authority to abolish the traditional liturgical rite. In fact, nowhere is it mentioned that the pope has the authority to change even a single local liturgical tradition. The fact that there is no mention of such authority strengthens our case considerably.

There are clearly defined limits to the plena et suprema potestas (full and highest powers) of the pope. For example, there is no question that, even in matters of dogma, he still has to follow the tradition of the universal Church—that is, as Vincent of Lerins says, what has been believed (quod semper,quod ubique,quod ab omnibus). In fact, there are several authors who state quite explicitly that it is clearly outside the pope's scope of authority to abolish the traditional rite.



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* Thus, Pope Innocent I (402-417) supports his demand for a uniform rite in his letter to the Bishop of Gubbio (PL 20:552), a letter that dealt primarily with liturgical issues, by saying, Quis enim nesciat aut non advertat, id quod a principe apostalorum Petro romanae ecclesiae traditum est, ac nunc, usque custoditur ab omnibus debere servari nec superduci aut intraduci aliquid quod auctoritatem non habeat, aut aliunde accipere videatur exemplum? ("Who would not know or acknowledge that what has been handed down to the Roman Church by Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, and is kept even now, ought to be preserved by all, and nothing that lacks authority or seems to take its example from another [source] ought to be added or introduced?") And Pope Vigilius (538-555), in a letter to the Metropolitan of Braga, has this to say: Quapropter et ipsius canonicae precis textum (that is, the Canon Missae) direximus supradictum, quem Deo propitio ex apostotica traditione suscepimus ("Wherefore also we have arranged ; the aforementioned text of the canonical prayer, which, through the kindness of God, we have received from the apostolic Tradition.") (PL 69:18).

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