Question follow-through · 18544

France: Religious Practice

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had discussions with the Holy See on the future of the Tridentine Mass at the Chartres pilgrimage in France.

answeredForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office

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Answering body: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tabled: 9 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 11 Dec 2024
Answer: 18 Dec 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

9 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had discussions with the Holy See on the future of the Tridentine Mass at the Chartres pilgrimage in France.
11 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Dec 2024
Answer published
This is an internal matter for the Catholic Church. We continue to engage the Holy See regularly bilaterally and in multilateral fora on areas of mutual interest. Most recently, on 27 November Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner met Cardinal Parolin, with...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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