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Article: Attention & praise. (Catholic liturgical reform)(Editorial)
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- Commonweal
- Article date:
- November 17, 1995
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Worship "is the metabolism of Christian life," wrote Yale historian Jaroslay Pelikan. Its lifeblood, soul, and pulse. No wonder the reform of the Roman liturgy remains such a point of contention among Catholics, thirty years after the close of Vatican II. As this issue of Commonweal illustrates, Catholics seem enmeshed in an unending quest for the right liturgical chemistry.
The areas of concern--and sometimes controversy--are manifold: language, music, deportment, gender, even the nature of ecclesiology. Why such upheaval? First, as the late Mark Searle once observed in these pages ("Renewing the Liturgy--again," November 18, 1988), Vatican II changed not only the ...