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
Ad Orientem: Clarifying the History
The history is ambiguous and mixed.
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Where Peter Is, Cardinal Roche, and Traditionis Custodes
“Absurd,” the cardinal says.
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How to Sanctify the World
Ask a hundred Catholics what is most important in the Church. They will answer: Mass.
Ask a hundred Catholics what is most important in Mass. They will answer: Transubstantiation, the transformation of bread and wine into Christ’s body and blood.
Tell a hundred Catholics that the most important thing in the Church is, therefore, transformation.
They will be outraged: “No, everything should stay the same.”
From the Wires: The Church’s Authority to Revise and Suppress Preconciliar Rites
Pope Francis is right: it is necessary to return to a single, unified Roman Rite and leave the “Traditional Latin Mass” in the past. And our personal liturgical preferences have absolutely no bearing on the matter. As conservatives have grown fond of saying, truth doesn’t care about your feelings.
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In This Issue: Ex Fonte 1 (2022)
Features explore ḥūḏrā of the Assyrian Church of the East, Carthusian stole practice as a potential model for women in the diaconate, the funerary rituals of E II R, and much more!
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For the Season of the Word: A Biography of the Lectionary
“A treasure trove of insights which flow from the author’s work on this book…an important and exemplary…partner in formation with the Lectionary and the liturgical year.”
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Original footage from Vatican II enlivens film from CNS
Pray Tell celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council.
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Book Review: An Ecumenical Priesthood
“Rinderknecht has done us all a great service here both in his lucid translation and thoughtful commentary. This is a little sign of ecumenical spring.”
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David Gibson Responds to Ross Douthat on Vatican II
“[Douthat] would do well to read almost any good church historian”
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And Because I am Good for Nothing: Some Notes on the Capacity of the Faithful
Sixty years after the opening of the Council, it would be time to get serious about the fact that the baptized are not just to go “to church” on Sundays.
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