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if the next pope is Italian, card Scola is the one in pole position

Nope, not one bit, because as I said in my other post, it is not the man, but the local Church, that determines legitimacy. That is why I have no problem saying that Pope Benedict XVI is the legitimate bishop of Rome.

Hopefully, the appointment of HRE Scola to Milan will be a boon in liberating the Rito Ambrosiano (Tradizionale) from Tetamanzi's chains.

Point of Information: Deacons of the Eastern Church do not wear dalmatics. Dalmatics were unique to the deacons of Rome (Actually the dalmatic was unique to the Bishop of Rome, and then it use was extended to the deacons, but that's a whole other post.) Now deacons of the Latin Church are able to use it. If deacons of the Ambrosian rite wear the stole outside the dalmatic, well, it must be unique to them.

I can understand how you would mistakenly identify our vestment as a "dalmatic,", even clergy in our Eastern Churches refer to the deacons ankle length vestment as a "dalmatic." Strictly speaaking the dalmatic hangs (approximately) below the knee and above the calf. Our vestment is actually a "sticharion" and corresponds to the Latin "alb," both of which signify baptismal garments. As such, deacons of the Eastern and Latin Churches wear the orarion/stole over the sticharion/alb. In the Eastern Church, the sticharion developed beyond the original white baptismal garment into the bright/dark vestment one sees today. The dalmatic, then, is an outer diaconal vestment unique to the Latin deacon.

Father Deacon,

Thank you for this clarification.

This post is actually offensive towards Card. Tettamanzi and out from the true.

The Motu Proprio of Pope Benedict XVI involved only the Roman Rite, not the Ambrosian one, and it cannot by applied to the Ambrosian Rite (the issue is the use of the 1955 Ambrosian Rite vs the Ambrosian Rite as reformed in the '70s)

Further any decision on this issue pertains to the Head-Rite (the Archbishop of Milan) and the Holy See don't intervene in non-Roman rites without prior consulting the Head-Rite.

However in two churches (Gentilino in Milano and in Legnano) the Traditional Ambrosian Rite is formally allowed (by the Card Tettamanzi) to be celebrated each Sunday (with however a very low attendance).

Yes, I am well aware of the two outposts in Milan where the Rito Ambroziano Tradizionale is available. I've only been able to visit one of them. I didn't have time for Legnano. And BTW, when I assisted at Gentilino, the church was full. In any case, the PCED has been on record for some time now regarding the applicability of Summorum Pontificum to the Rito Ambroziano. http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2009/05/pced-declares-validity-of-mp-summorum.html

That was the personal opinion of Mons Perl, never accepted by the Ambrosian Church and never formalized by any Roman document

However it is important to point out that it is true that the Pope has a universal jurisdiction also on all the rites different from the Roman, but this power is extraordinary, scarcely used, never without the involvement of the local hierarchies, and however it doesn't allow whichever secretary of whichever Roman office to rule on his own account and directly over different rites surmounting the explicit will of the Head Rite.

End of the story: Milan complained, and (by chance ?) after two months Mons Perl was dismissed.

PS the church at the Gentilino (I sometimes go) has about 40 people capacity, and you can always very easily find to sit.

Whatever.