‘The attempt to suppress the traditional liturgy could mobilize interest in it’: Liturgy professor blasts Traditionis Custodes The respected German newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, last week published a strongly critical article on Pope Francis’s Apostolic Letter by Professor Helmut Hoping, Professor of Dogmatics and Liturgical Studies at the University of Freiburg. (LifeSiteNews) – Professor Helmut Hoping, Professor of Dogmatics and Liturgical Studies at the University of Freiburg, has written a strongly critical article on Pope Francis’s Apostolic Letter Traditionis Custodes, in the respected German newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) on July 28. The article, in German, is unfortunately paywalled, but I have seen a translation.