Pope Benedict Is Trying To Revitalize Our Catholic Identity As A Bulwark Against The Dictatorship Of Relativism

After the devastation in WWII, the USA helped to rebuild Europe in order to foster trade and support a bulwark against Communism. In the wake of the devastation caused by a hermeneutic of discontinuity after the Second Vatican Council, Pope Benedict is trying to revitalize our Catholic identity as a bulwark against the dictatorship of relativism. - Fr. Z

Arbitrary Deformations of The Liturgy Caused Deep Pain

Many people who clearly accepted the binding character of the Second Vatican Council, and were faithful to the Pope and the Bishops, nonetheless also desired to recover the form of the sacred liturgy that was dear to them. This occurred above all because in many places celebrations were not faithful to the prescriptions of the new Missal, but the latter actually was understood as authorizing or even requiring creativity, which frequently led to deformations of the liturgy which were hard to bear. I am speaking from experience, since I too lived through that period with all its hopes and its confusion. And I have seen how arbitrary deformations of the liturgy caused deep pain to individuals totally rooted in the faith of the Church. - Pope Benedict XVI, letter to present the Motu Proprio

The Ecclesial Crisis in Which we Find Ourselves Today Depends in Great Part on The Collapse of The Liturgy

"...The drastic manner in which Pope Paul VI reformed the Mass in 1966 provoked extremely serious damage to the Church...Some changes were needed, but the suppression of the old Mass marked a break in the history of the liturgy, the consequences of which could only be tragic...I am convinced that the ecclesial crisis in which we find ourselves today depends in great part on the collapse of the liturgy." - Pope Benedict XVI From La Vita Mia, ("My Life")

People Are Seeing Through The Banality and The Pathetic Homemade Liturgies

"...we can...explain the fundamental change that has come about in the understanding of ritual and liturgy...: the primary subject of liturgy is neither God nor Christ, but the 'we' of the ones celebrating. And liturgy cannot of course have adoration as its primary content since, according to the deistic understanding of God, there is no reason for it. To an increasing degree people are seeing through the banality and the childish rationalism of the pathetic homemade liturgies with their artificial theatrics; it is becoming obvious how trivial they are. The authority of mystery has disappeared..." - Pope Benedict XVI

The Church Stands and Falls With the Liturgy

The Church stands and falls with the Liturgy. For that reason, the true celebration of the Sacred Liturgy is the center of any renewal of the Church whatsoever. - Pope Benedict XVI

No Pope Has Ever Spoken in Favor of Communion in The Hand

If you support Communion in the hand, you are in opposition to at least the personal opinion of *every single Pope* that's gone on record in history on this issue. No Pope has ever spoken *in favor* of Communion in the hand, and it seems that the two longest-reigning post-Conciliar popes both had very strong opinions indeed against it. - The Catholic Thinker

http://www.catholicthinker.net/our-lady-of-akita-communion-o/

I Side With the Church, Not Some Washed up Hippies

When Vatican II closed, it intended a hermeneutic of continuity. Over the past 50 years however, what we have seen has been a radical attempt to break from the 2000 year rich tradition of the Church. Pope Benedict XVI, has made it his mission to place the train back on the tracks again, re-introducing the rich traditions that many flung away after they misinterpreted Vatican II for political reasons.

Remember, Salvation is not a free for all. Jesus chose the 12 and gave them the expressed mission to save the world from itself. I side with the Church, not some washed up hippies from the 70's. Save the Liturgy, Save the world.

Advent 2011, here we come!

Janus Lockius

What Vatican II Was Really About

The Universal Call to Holiness is what Vatican II was really about, not the liturgical free-for-all that the corrupt liberal leaders in the Church have made it into. - Jason Alcantara