If a future pope rolled back the 20th century liturgical reforms, would they allow pluralism for the reformed rites?
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Author: Jonathan Day
I am a writer and consultant. My church home is the Jesuit Church of the Immaculate Conception (Farm Street Church) in central London, where I serve at the altar and help with adult education at the Mount Street Jesuit Centre. I recently became the chair of Council at Newman University, a small Catholic university in Birmingham. I write here in a purely personal capacity.
On Reginald Foster’s Latin
Tireless evangelist for Latin, pioneering teacher with an eccentric approach – but it reflected a deep understanding of how languages work.
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Liturgical change at the Second Vatican Council: a report from 1963
Ratzinger on the liturgies held at the start and conclusion of the 1st session of Vatican II.
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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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How to Translate Conversatio Morum?
In a recent liturgy, a candidate for simple profession to a Benedictine abbey promised stability (in English), obedience (in English), and conversatio morum (in Latin). Why couldn’t that third promise be rendered in English? And how best to do so?
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Eamon Duffy on the Mass translation of 2011
It is not only “liberals” who critique Liturgiam Authenticam and the bizarre translation that it led to; scholars of impeccable academic and “conservative” credentials reach the same conclusion.
Read moreA new treasury of primary source material for Vatican II
Newly published material, all of it predating the Second Vatican Council, illustrates a wide range of views on liturgical development and change.
Read moreFollow-up: Is Summorum Pontificum Divisive?
The very term “traditionalism” is fundamentally modern.
Read moreDisambiguating the “quod” clause in GIRM section 299
The Latin of a controversial rubric in the Roman Missal is inherently ambiguous. Neither a Vatican clarification nor strong comments from participants on both sides of the liturgical spectrum have made it less so.
Read moreA Mass lacking architectural integrity
Lots of things happened during a solemn parish liturgy, but they didn’t add up.
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