"Annual Latin Mass pilgrimage barred from entering St. Peter’s Basilica"

"Vatican journalist Diane Montagna, citing Christian Marquant, the pilgrimage’s chief organizer, reported Friday that the Vatican will bar priests, religious, and lay faithful participating in the 15th annual Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage from entering St. Peter’s Basilica on Saturday, Oct. 24, as originally scheduled.

This notably expands restrictions on the traditionalist pilgrimage, as Bishop Athanasius Schneider had already been denied permission to celebrate the October 24 Mass at St. Peter’s, but pilgrims were still scheduled to process into and pray at the ancient basilica on Saturday afternoon.

'Your procession is not allowed to enter into St. Peter’s Basilica,' a letter from the Vatican Secretariat of State said per Marquant.

'We will not enter into St. Peter’s tomorrow,' Marquant read to pilgrims Friday per Montagna, adding that accusations had been made that the 2025 Mass at St. Peter’s was 'instrumentalized.'

As reported by LifeSiteNews last month, the Vatican Secretariat of State had denied permission for Bishop Schneider to celebrate the pilgrimage’s Pontifical Mass inside St. Peter’s Basilica on Saturday."