In 2018, three years before Traditionis Custodes, Cardinal Fernández was restricting the traditional Latin Mass in La Plata archdiocese, contravening Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum. He allowed the Vetus Ordo to only be celebrated on Sundays, in only one church in the archdiocese, and at a time authorized by him. He also made it compulsory for priests celebrating novus ordo Masses ad orientem to celebrate them facing the people and in the vernacular.
