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https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/vaticans-four-year-probe-of-faithful-franciscans-of-the-immaculate-could-en
In the last years of the pontificate of Benedict XVI the Friars of the Immaculate had begun to use the pre-Vatican II order of the Mass. Even after the issue of Benedict’s Motu Proprio, Summorum Pontificum, in 2007, the use of the older liturgical form has been broadly opposed by bishops, especially in Italy. Nevertheless, interest in its use has seen a steady growth, and it may have been this growing interest in the traditional forms of liturgy among the FFI’s younger vocations that drew the ire of the Vatican. When the order voted to use the Old Rite preferentially they immediately became the second largest group in the Church to do so, with more than 200 priests, 360 brothers and 400 nuns. The signal to the broader Church of this popular community abandoning the Ordinary Form could not be endured by men dedicated to the new Catholic paradigm.