Is this the anti-Ratzinger Pope?



"Whenever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment." Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, The Spirit of the Liturgy, 198. As St. Pope Pius X said when he was received with applause upon entering St. Peter's Basilica: "It is not fitting to applaud the servant in the house of his Master."


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