The Vatican Secretariat of State told the Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage’s chief organizer that their procession is banned from St. Peter’s this year, according to a new report.

The faithful attending this weekend’s Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage will no longer be permitted to enter St. Peter’s Basilica, per a Friday report.

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.”

This story is developing…

Antonio Cambria, Lifesite News