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Rite" is also sometimes met with, but Pope Benedict XVI declared it inappropriate to speak of the 1962 Roman Missal and that published by later popes as if they were two rites: rather, he wrote, it is a matter of "a twofold use of one and the same" Roman Rite. Hugh Somerville-Knapman, O.S.B., says that they should be separate rites, as the Mass promulgated at the Council of Trent was already the pre-existing liturgy of the Diocese of Rome

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