'Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment. Such attraction fades quickly - it cannot compete in the market of leisure pursuits, incorporating as it increasingly does various forms of religious titillation.'

'After the Second Vatican Council, the impression arose that the pope really could do anything in liturgical matters, especially if he were acting on the manda…

'Unspontaneity is of their essence. In these rites I discover that something is approaching me here that I did not produce myself, that I am entering into some…

'If the divorced are remarried civilly, they find themselves in a situation that objectively contravenes God's law. Consequently, they cannot receive Holy Comm…