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The “Old Mass” and the “Novus Ordo” Mass: Irreconcilable differences?

January 18, 2026 Father Jerry J. Pokorsky 182

Editor’s note: This essay was posted originally at CWR on July 3, 2022. “Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.” (Col. 3:21) The relationship between the preconciliar and postconciliar forms of Mass […]

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A multifaceted affirmation of Joseph Ratzinger’s theology of liturgy

March 20, 2023 Andrew T.J. Kaethler 11

The relation between ontology and history, writes Joseph Ratzinger, is “the fundamental crisis of our age.”1 It is the pressing question of contemporary theology, a question that Ratzinger repeatedly queries. In dense prose he argues […]

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Liturgical double standards and the hermeneutic of rupture

February 13, 2023 James Baresel 32

Shortly after Pope Benedict XVI issued Summorum Pontificum in 2007, the then Bishop of Leeds issued an “interpretation” which did its best to reduce the motu proprio to meaninglessness and obstruct its implementation. Examples include: […]

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The importance of Schuster’s monumental, multi-volume Sacramentary

August 23, 2022 James Baresel 3

Most of those debating the changes in Catholic liturgical life since the 1950s base their positions in—or pay lip service to—the principles of the early to mid-twentieth century “Liturgical Movement.” The argument centers on: whether […]

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Costa Rican priest suspended, sent for psychological treatment for celebrating Latin Novus Ordo

August 20, 2021 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 53

A Costa Rican priest says he has been suspended, removed from his parish, and sent to psychological treatment by his bishop who is angry with him for celebrating the reformed liturgy in Latin and ad […]

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