Now then, the Bishop of Charlotte, Michael Martin, wants to put such severe restrictions on the Latin Mass as will set it on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...