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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Tag: Traditionalism
Startling Interview with Pope Francis
“We have to find a new balance,” the pope continued, “otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.”
Read more2013 RETRSPECTIVE: Toward the transformation of traditionalism
A report from the Sacra Liturgia conference suggests that we are entering an age of liturgical pluralism and peace, and that traditionalism has been transformed. What would transformed traditionalism look like?
Read moreAP: Pope’s foot-wash a final straw for traditionalists
“Virtually everything he has done since being elected pope, every gesture, every decision, has rankled traditionalists in one way or another.”
Read morePapal Election Raises Alarm for Some Latin Mass Fans
“Yes, he’s the bishop of Rome, yes, he’s got a special place in the church … but people need to wean themselves off looking to him constantly and assuming that everything he does we have to do, and everything he doesn’t do, we can’t do,” Adam DeVille told NCR.
Read moreSlate (!!) on the Liturgical Views of the New Pope
“Liturgical traditionalists can only be depressed by this election – it is almost the worst result…”
Read morePope Francis
Well, that was a surprise.
Read moreUnintended novelty
The loss of the past is inevitable, and not to face the inevitable is psychologically, culturally, and, I suspect spiritually dangerous.
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