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Liturgical Pioneers pull out

This is the parish where they celebrated Dialogue Mass before the Second World War.

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Sacrosanctum Concilium at 48

As we mark the 48th anniversary of Sacrosanctum Concilium today, please pause for a moment to remember the Liturgical Pioneers, Pastoral Musicians and Liturgists who have gone before you.

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Christ the King 2011: an Englishman preaches in Bunker Hill

If we celebrate this feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Universal King here in the US, we need to recognise that so much of what is valuable and precious in this country arises from a rejection of the idea of kingship, a recognition that the political power of this world can often be dysfunctional and abusive, that human freedom and dignity need to be safeguarded.

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Evelyn Waugh, Cardinal Heenan and Bitter Trials

Ignatius Press has just published a third (!) edition of A Bitter Trial, correspondence between Evelyn Waugh and Cardinal Heenan in the years from 1962 till Waugh’s death in 1966.

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Vatican II Limericks

You’ve read reports from the Second Vatican Council before, but never quite like these!

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Letters to The Tablet, 17 September

…I was responding rather sharply to a piece by Fr Allen Morris, until recently secretary of the English and Welsh bishops’ liturgy office. On 17 September, he had written a letter defending against a critic what is said in a UK edition of the new texts, namely that the bishops had been overseeing their gestation for about 20 years.

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Who began the undoing of Vatican II? Was it already Pope Paul VI??

“Oppose ecclesiastical power, but look with mercy on the custodians of this power. Try daily in your communities to build this Church-for-others of Vatican II. We sow, the Gospel also says, in tears; others, in their day, shall reap in joy. But let us not lament our fate. It is very laborious, difficult, but still wonderful.” — Abbot Giovanni Franzoni, OSB

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In Praise of Rupture

Who could praise rupture?

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Liturgy: First on the Agenda

A new organization of priests in the US is planning a convocation for next June. The topic–liturgy.

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Report from New Zealand

Eighty-three percent gave a negative evaluation of the new translation.

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