In a break with his predecessor, Pope Francis is reimposing restrictions on the service used before the ’60s reforms — and risking a Catholic divide. ed_kilgore writes
A celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass in Rome in 2007. Photo: ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images Pope Francis has done a lot of things to offend so-called “traditionalist” Catholics since he assumed the Chair of St. Peter in 2013.
So what’s going on here? Are Dougherty and the “traditionalists” he speaks for simply a reactionary elite faction wedded to medieval ritual habits? As explained below, it’s not as simple as that. Instead of a priest facing a raised altar muttering prayers, usually accompanied by a choir, as the congregation at its leisure watched or prayed or meditated until called to attention by a bell to witness the elevation of the Host , the new rite focused on congregational participation, with the priest facing worshipers across a simple table and everyone engaged in prayers and music. It was, in many respects, a Copernican Revolution in how the mass was structured and executed.
I believe the practice of the new Mass forms people to a new faith: To become truly Christian, one must cease to be Christian at all …I have faith that one day, even secular historians will look upon what was wrought after Vatican II and see it for what it was: the worst spasm of iconoclasm in the church’s history — dwarfing the Byzantine iconoclasm of the ninth century and the Protestant Reformation.Pope Benedict had temporarily allowed us to begin repairing the damage.
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