Pre-Vatican II Mass After the Pauline reforms of the liturgy, it was presumed that the "Tridentine" or Latin Mass would fade away. Bishops were given the authority to suppress it in their dioceses ...

From this perspective, the draft on the liturgy, as well as Vatican II’s final constitution on the liturgy, were not profoundly new in content. These texts had a clear inspiration from Pope Pius ...

Outcry over proposed norms in the North Carolina diocese is rising to international attention, as it represents the first ...

But it is a misunderstanding or a category mistake to think that a ritual activity like liturgy should be intimate. In addition to this misconstrual of the intent of the post-Vatican II reform ...

As a result of Vatican II, the Catholic Church opened its windows onto the modern world, updated the liturgy, gave a larger role to laypeople, introduced the concept of religious freedom and ...

Speaker: John Baldovin, S.J. How has the Vatican II liturgical reform changed the Church? Where are we now with the reform? What lies in the future? John Baldovin, S.J., Ph.D., Professor of Historical ...

saying the often “hysterical” reactions to Pope Francis’s decision last year to tighten permissions for celebrating the pre-Vatican II liturgy are concerning. Speaking to Crux, Roche ...

What Vatican II wanted In the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, the Council called for (#14) "full, conscious and active (actuosa in Latin) participation" by all members of the Church.

The new liturgy was supposed to make the faithful ... The work of the French historian Guillaume Cuchet, who has studied Vatican II’s impact on his once deeply Catholic nation, suggests ...

Unlike his two predecessors, St. John Paul II and retired Pope Benedict ... he described as a meditation on the liturgy and one that strongly affirmed the Vatican II reform of the Latin-rite ...

The liberal interpretation dominated Catholic life in the 1960s and 1970s, when Vatican II was invoked to justify an ever-wider array of changes — to the church’s liturgy and calendar and ...