diff --git a/modules/mpi/dependency/MPI.cmake b/modules/mpi/dependency/MPI.cmake
index bf641b9dff..3d2dcf19ab 100644
--- a/modules/mpi/dependency/MPI.cmake
+++ b/modules/mpi/dependency/MPI.cmake
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
-# We don't need the deprecated C++ bindings, so try to suppress linkage
-# against them
-set(MPI_CXX_SKIP_MPICXX TRUE CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
-
 find_package(MPI)
 
 if("${MPI_CXX_FOUND}")