As a conclusion, Catholics want to know whether the new pope would support Latin Mass.

At noon Sunday after Easter, about 140 people came to the sweetest heart of Mary Church in Detroit. The aroma and organ music fluttered in the ornate sanctuary built by Polish Catholics in the late 19th century. It was a beautiful sunny spring afternoon, and the parish lilac flowers were blooming.

However, on the bench, the mood is uncertain. Since Detroit’s new Archbishop Edward Weisenburger told the pastor that he plans to start the availability of traditional masses in the Archdiocese this summer, after Pope Francis conducted a 2021 dist, he plans to significantly reduce the availability of traditional masses in the Archdiocese, which is less than three weeks after Pope Francis made a dist in 2021. In some ways, panic caused a rebound in panic, which one critic called “bloody.”

Then, on April 21, the Pope passed away, causing the plan to be requested, or at least the hope of its critics.

“If the next pope really wants, he might come on the first day and be fully open to the Latin masses,” said Kiera Raymond, a Michigan college student who organized a “Latin mass mob” to gather supporters to provide the mass parish before restrictions were restricted.

The traditional Latin masses were simple masses, and Catholics around the world celebrated the same way for centuries until the modernization reform of the Second Vatican Parliament in the 1960s. Differences are subtle but important for those who fit their meanings.

The pastor faces the same direction as most believers at Mass (i.e., away from them, towards the altar). Yes, most services are in Latin, not in English or hundreds of other languages ​​of the “new masses” that are now celebrated around the world.

Recently, traditional mass has become an impossible lightning rod for wider theological and ideological disputes, especially in the American church, with strong pressure on its theological and liturgical conservatism. Its believers tend to attend Mass more frequently and their vision for the church is focused on the openness and modernity of the Francis era.

Pope Francis called the Old Mass a Schizo, and some of his other comments stimulated the traditionalist: his reference to a large family with children “like rabbits”, his comments on the pastor to stop wearing “grandma’s lace.”

The traditional masses represent only a part of the Catholics. But it has become increasingly popular in many parishes across the country, especially young people including young pastors. According to Alex Begin, the Archdiocese of Detroit now has 28 parishes and churches that provide traditional masses. According to another unofficial list online, about 500 venues are available nationwide.

This is the backdrop of Archbishop Weisenburger's announcement at a large private meeting with the Detroit pastor on April 8, who plans to reduce the availability of traditional masses to four to five locations starting in July. (One of them is St. Joseph's Shrine, which already has as many as 650 worshippers on a typical Sunday and is supporting more after the restrictions come into effect.)

After the meeting, when the public rebound broke out, Archbishop Wesenberg sent a letter to try to clarify.

“This is not the beginning of my desire to delve into my own in the Archdiocese,” he wrote, urging the pastor not to distract the issue. He also suggested that the traditional masses themselves may have become a problem in the church, not because of the liturgy itself, but because of the character of the pastor of the celebration.

Holly Fournier, a spokesman for the Archdiocese, said the diocese received temporary extensions following the Pope's 2021 restrictions on traditional masses, and those extensions are already due this summer. She said in an email that the Archbishop “considered the diocese with enough time to implement the direction of the Father.”

On Sunday after Easter, on the bench of the church around the Archdiocese, be in a cautious mood.

“People are very scared,” said Lauren Leyva, 33, an organist at St. Edward on the lake about an hour north of Detroit. She joined the traditional masses with her family, including two children.

“We pray for the Pope and his health,” Ms. Leva said after the mass on Sunday. “But we hope something will change.”

Pastors who celebrate the traditional masses of Detroit are in a delicate position. Some of them manipulate behind the scenes to maintain the traditional masses of the parish, or at least in their areas. But few people want to be seen as a stirrer in a tense moment before enforcing restrictions and before choosing a new pope.

Rev. Brian Hurley said: “Now everything is in the air. Now many young couples in his parish also request that the wedding be celebrated in the old liturgy. Father Hurley said the pastor was talking to each other and speaking with friendly Archdiocese staff in an attempt to provide as many people as possible to enter the traditional masses.

At St. Edward on the lake, Pastor Lee Acervo advised his congregation not to write to the Archbishop, but to just pray and “trust the Lord.”

Father Akwo, like several other pastors around the parish, was ready to lose the traditional masses in July and refuse to speak to journalists. In a letter to his congregation published in the diocese bulletin, he clarified the bets for the next session.

“This is a truly critical period in the history of the church,” he wrote. “We need to pray for the Holy Pope. A Holy Pope. Not a political pope. Instead, a pope who will not compromise faith to be with the world. A pope who will teach faith with clarity rather than ambiguity.”

This is obvious for those who have ears to hear. Francis' critics accused him of sowing chaos and sending contradictory and even contradictory messages such as church teaching about marriage.

Traditionalists are paying close attention to the conventional competition in Rome. They have their own favorites, including Cardinal Peter Erdo of Hungary and Cardinal Robert Sarah of Guinea, former head of the Vatican Liturgy Office and main rival to Francis.

“Let me take this mass from me,” said Anna Graziosi, 79, president of the Ausmation Grotto diocese council on the east side of Detroit. Ms Graziosi joined about 20 people at the traditional mass at 7:30 a.m. last Monday at 7:30 a.m.

Ms. Graziosi immigrated to Detroit from Italy at the age of 5.

For her, Novus Ordo or New Order exhausted not only the sacredness of the ceremony, but also her attention to it. The focus of prayer according to the requirements of the old masses, as required by the prayer book.

The new mass was designed in part to make worshippers more, but Ms. Graziossi discovered her thoughts and beliefs-walking until she searched for the Latin mass in her childhood parish, assuming Groto.

She prays for the soul of Pope Francis this week as she prays for him in her life. “I want to make a kind judgment,” she said.