
Vatican II Sought True Liturgical Reform
COMMENTARY: As the Council hoped, it is possible to celebrate the new rites of the Mass with sacred beauty.
COMMENTARY: As the Council hoped, it is possible to celebrate the new rites of the Mass with sacred beauty.
Bishops seeking to faithfully fulfill the Pope’s call for greater regulation of the traditional Latin Mass are grappling with tough decisions that have real pastoral consequences.
NEWS ANALYSIS: The juxtaposition of laxity for liturgical abuses with forceful crackdowns of reverent worship well beyond Pope Francis’s recent directives calls into question Cardinal Blase Cupich’s stated prioritization of promoting unity and the reforms of Vatican II.
Springfield’s release aligns the canons in the diocese with the policies implemented by their archbishop. That policy, which was announced in December, also went into effect on Jan. 25.
The Mass featured jazz musicians, choreographed dances around the altar, and theatrical lighting effects.
Unity Pope’s motu proprio seeks requires renewing celebration of the ‘ordinary form’ of the Mass, too, say theologians.
Part II of the Register’s look at the history of the New Order of the Mass
Why the Mass Was Revised
COMMENTARY: As the Roman Catholic Church marks the golden jubilee, it is a good time to separate the ‘substance’ of its reforms from the ‘accidents’ of its historical context and implementation.
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