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A question for opponents of Traditionis Custodes

If a future pope rolled back the 20th century liturgical reforms, would they allow pluralism for the reformed rites?

Pope Francis to Sicilian clerics: Take off your grandmother’s lace.

June 10, 2022 James Hadley, OblSB Art and Architecture Church Reform Pope Francis Popular Piety Vatican II

In an audience with bishops and priests of Sicily on 9 June 2022, Pope Francis told the clerics to stop wearing their “grandmother’s lace”, saying

Brief Book Review: Catholic Discordance

June 1, 2022 Other Voices Brief Book Review Pope Francis Recently Published Books Vatican II

“Borghesi convincingly presents the hostile efforts of American neoconservative Catholics to undermine the mission of Pope Francis.”

A document on liturgical formation is being prepared in Rome

May 13, 2022 Rita Ferrone CDW / Holy See Vatican II

In a wide-ranging interview on May 9, in the Spanish magazine Omnes, Archbishop Arthur Roche, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, revealed that a document

Pope Francis and the ever new amazement of active participation

May 7, 2022 Fr. Neil Xavier O'Donoghue Pope Francis Uncategorized Vatican II

This morning the Pope met with the students and teachers of the Pontifical Liturgy Institute. So far the text of his discourse is only available

There Are Good Reasons to Support the RCIA – A response to an essay at NCR

March 22, 2022 Rita Ferrone Initiation / RCIA Pope Francis Vatican II

The Church today asks us to conduct ourselves in a particular way in Christian initiation because the way we initiate is a fundamental expression of who we are.

Versus Populum in the Syro-Malabar Church

March 21, 2022 Fr. Neil Xavier O'Donoghue Eastern Liturgy Eucharist Vatican II

It feels a little strange to write my fourth post on this matter (see here, here and here ). But problems with the orientation of

I Want to Speak with the Manager: A Conversation with Archbishop Roche

March 14, 2022 Editor CDW / Holy See Church Reform Pope Francis Reform of the Reform Vatican II

Christopher Lamb of The Tablet speaks with the Prefect of the CDW.

What is a Post-Vatican-II-Mass?

November 29, 2021 Fritz Bauerschmidt Vatican II

Whether celebrated with contemporary music or Gregorian Chant, oriented toward people or with them, with communion on the tongue or in the hand, in brutalist simplicity or baroque splendor, the reformed Mass conveys certain distinctive emphases of the Second Vatican Council.