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Benedict on the new liturgical movement

The prescient John Allen says a moto proprio on marriage is forthcoming, in which the Holy Father will comment also on liturgy, if briefly.

Ruminating

Different ideas about liturgical inculturation sometimes take a lot of chewing before they can be digested together.

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What Ratzinger Tells Us About Benedict

Pope Benedict is on another planet than the traditionalists. He supported the goals of the preconciliar liturgical movement. He fundamentally supports the idea of structural liturgical reform…

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Liturgical Observation on Lace

Yesterday afternoon, our friends over at the New Liturgical Movement posted a rather nice set of photographs from the “Papal Vespers on the Feast of the Presentation.” I am grateful as ever to Shawn Tribe for doing the legwork of finding and posting the photographs, together with appropriate notes.
Without having seen the broadcast of the Evening Prayer service, I can really can’t comment on more than the details I notice in the NLM photos. [MORE...]

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Ecumenical Problem or Pastoral Solution?

On Wednesday, November 4, 2009, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI promulgated the Apostolic Constitution “Anglicanorum Coetibus, Providing for Personal Ordinariates for Anglicans entering into Full Communion with the Catholic Church.” The Constitution became available to the English-speaking world the following Monday, November 9, 2009, together with a second document, “Complimentary Norms for the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus.” The appearance of the Constitution itself was noted in passing in the secular press as the real thunder had [MORE...]