Table of Contents
Publisher's Note ix
Foreword Martin Mosebach xi
Preface xix
Abbreviations and Conventions xxix
1 Tradition as Ultimate Norm 1
2 The Laws of Organic Development and the Rupture of 1969 33
3 Hyperpapalism and Liturgical Mutation 79
4 Revisiting Paul VI's Apologia for the New Mass 109
5 Two "Forms": Liturgical Fact or Canonical Fiat?- 145
6 How Much Can the Pope Change Our Rites, and Why Would He? 179
7 Growth or Corruption? Catholic versus Protestant-Modernist Models 197
8 The Roman Canon: Pillar and Ground of the Roman Rite 217
9 The Displacement of the Mysterium Fidei 263
10 Byzantine, Tridentine, Montinian: Two Brothers and a Stranger 279
11 Rescued from the Memory Hole 313
12 The Once and Future Roman Rite 333
Epilogue: Oppositions 377
Acknowledgments 379
Appendix: Pope Paul VI on the Liturgical Reform 381
Sources of Epigraphs 399
Sources of Artwork 401
Select Bibliography 403
Index 413
About the Author 437