If a future pope rolled back the 20th century liturgical reforms, would they allow pluralism for the reformed rites?
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Category: Vatican II
What is a Post-Vatican-II-Mass?
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.
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Faggioli on U.S. Traditionalism: A Response
Anthony Ruff responds to Massimo Faggioli’s piece in Commonweal on U.S. traditionalists.
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Full, conscious and active, or …?
The version that has been on the Vatican website in recent years has a subtle difference.
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The Reformed Rites: Discerning the Lex Orandi
What is the lex orandi of the reformed liturgy, and why is it important that we understand it?
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Roche: Experiment to Reconcile with SSPX via Old Liturgy Failed
In a recent interview, Archbishop Arthur Roche made multiple strong statements about how the efforts of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI to reconcile
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CONSTRUCTIVE CONVERSATION: O’Malley and Ruff on Traditionis Custodes UPDATED 11/12
Dialogue on a controversial topic. UPDATED 11/12, TOM on medieval (and patristic) liturgical models.
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Diocese of Rome bans pre-Vatican II Triduum rites – but does this include Easter Sunday?
The decree most likely does not prohibit the pre-Vatican II Latin Mass on Easter Sunday.
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Archbishop Roche on the Interpretation of Traditionis Custodes
The pre-Vatican II Latin Mass “in fact was abrogated by Pope Saint Paul VI.”
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The Gift of Traditionis Custodes
By Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archdiocese of Chicago
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