The present volume consists of essays on three topics: the radical, extreme, quasi-schismatic wing of "traditionalism," the New (Pauline, Novus Ordo) Mass and its liturgical abuses, and genuine, orthodox (not silly liberal) ecumenism. "Traditionalists" want to be observant and faithful Catholics, for the most part, but they have been misled by various errors of the nature of what is called "rigorism". This recurring problem throughout Church history is seen in groups such as the Donatists, Montanists, Jansenists, and the Old Catholics who left the Church after Vatican I (1870): an error of thinking and out-of-whack perspective; an inability or unwillingness to think with the Mind of the Church, and a lack of charity. I love traditional Catholic worship. That's not what this book will be critiquing. It will, rather, criticize fringe views that seek to "bash" the New Mass as profoundly "inauthentic" and inferior Catholic worship, and to dismiss Vatican II and true ecumenism.
- ISBN10 1300552190
- ISBN13 9781300552192
- Publish Date 21 December 2012
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 August 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook
- Language English