Something old, something new
Article defending the Latin Mass in The Tablet:
"The modern liturgy is here to stay but, in response to Andrew Cameron-Mowat (The Tablet, 24 February), a liturgical scholar whose work earned praise from Cardinal Ratzinger argues that the older liturgical forms have something legitimate to offer to the Church of today - and tomorrow
Early in the morning of 20 April 2005 I received an email from a liturgist friend: 'I've already sent in my request for an indult to be allowed to continue to say the modern Mass during the new pontificate,' he quipped. I laughed heartily, because the last thing Pope Benedict would ever do would be to use his authority to proscribe a liturgical rite that has nourished the faith and life of at least two generations of Catholics - regardless of his appreciation of the value of the pre-conciliar liturgy, and of his support for the discussion of a possible 'reform of the [liturgical] reform'. "
"The modern liturgy is here to stay but, in response to Andrew Cameron-Mowat (The Tablet, 24 February), a liturgical scholar whose work earned praise from Cardinal Ratzinger argues that the older liturgical forms have something legitimate to offer to the Church of today - and tomorrow
Early in the morning of 20 April 2005 I received an email from a liturgist friend: 'I've already sent in my request for an indult to be allowed to continue to say the modern Mass during the new pontificate,' he quipped. I laughed heartily, because the last thing Pope Benedict would ever do would be to use his authority to proscribe a liturgical rite that has nourished the faith and life of at least two generations of Catholics - regardless of his appreciation of the value of the pre-conciliar liturgy, and of his support for the discussion of a possible 'reform of the [liturgical] reform'. "
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