Pope Benedict XVI: Defender of Tradition
Pope Benedict XVI on Tradition Pope Benedict XVI defended and supported Catholic tradition throughout his life. Pope Benedict XVI on the Novus Ordo Mass - “What happened after the Council was something else entirely: in the place of liturgy as the fruit of development came fabricated liturgy. We abandoned the organic, living process of growth and development over centuries, and replaced it - as in a manufacturing process - with a fabrication, a banal on-the-spot product.” [1] “I am convinced that the crisis in the Church that we are experiencing today is, to a large extent, due to the disintegration of the liturgy.” [2] Pope Benedict XVI on Ad Orientem - “ The turning of the priest toward the people has turned the community into a self-enclosed circle. In its outward form, it no longer opens out on what lies ahead and above, but is locked into itself. The common turning toward the East was not a “celebration toward the wall”; it did not mean...