Battle lines in the liturgy wars
I like this:
"Historian O’Malley referred to a canon law principle that essentially says, "An abuse doesn’t mean you change what you’re doing. You try to correct those who are abusing things.""While this could be applied to the changes from what preceeded Vatican II, it is more appropriate to apply this to some of the aberrations that followed Vatican II. It doesn't provied ammunition for those who would like to see things returned to the pre-Vatican II state. While a more reverent attitude might be a valuable change, I'm not certain that a return to the Tridentine liturgy would fix anything. All it would do is make the 20 and 30-something traditionalist young folk (who have never experienced the aberrations of the pre-Vatican II liturgy) happy. A very small section of the Church, indeed!
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