Tag: Summorum Pontificum
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When did the rupture first take place?
A question for those who hold that the Mass as most Catholics know it represents an ‘irreformable rupture’: when did the rupture first take place?
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Unreliable Claims
Matthew Schmitz’s op-ed piece in the New York Times, entitled “The Latin Mass, Thriving in Southeastern Nigeria,” raises a number of questions.
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Confusing Beauty with Baroque
The strongest force driving skepticism of liturgical reform is the “lack of reverence” some experience at the Ordinary Form.
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Summorum Pontificum: Brief Reflections on Its Seventh Anniversary
SP has aroused strongly negative and positive reactions – but sometimes by finding in or drawing from the document more I think than it says or intends. In many ways it is not as bad as some critics contend (“Wrong in so many ways… where to begin…!”), nor does it imply what some supporters may…
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Magister on Liturgy under Francis
“If Bergoglio were a pupil of professor Ratzinger, … he would see his lines marked with the red pen.”
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Reading tea leaves
Has Pope Francis proved himself a stalwart friend of Summorum Pontificum or are we seeing “the end of the reform of the reform”?
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UPDATED: How Many Cardinal Electors Have Celebrated the Pre-Vatican II Mass Since 2007?
Twelve of the cardinal electors in the next conclave have celebrated the unreformed rite.
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Shakeup at Vatican Worship Office
The new secretary of the CDW is Bishop Arthur Roche, bishop of Leeds and chairmen of ICEL 2002-2012.
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Shared Lent, Holy Week, and Easter Octave in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms: a Proposal
I propose that a revised EF missal for Lent, Holy Week, and Easter octave inclusive might foster greater enichment between the two forms. In this way, parishes which celebrate both forms can share in the mysteries of the summit of the Christian year rather than follow two different paths for the lectionary and presidential prayers.