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Cardinal Newman’s Liturgical Compass, by Michael J. Ortiz – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Cardinal Newman’s Liturgical Compass, by Michael J. Ortiz

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St. John Henry Newman. (photo: John Everett Millais / Public Domain )

By Michael J. Ortiz, Crisis Magazine, July 14, 2025

Michael J. Ortiz is on the faculty at The Heights School, in Potomac, Maryland. He is the author of Swan Town: The Secret Journal of Susanna Shakespeare (HarperCollins, 2006) and Like the First Morning: The Morning Offering as Daily Renewal (Ave Maria Press, 2015).

 

If the Mass of our forefathers is to be restored to the Church, we must understand Holy Mass in the same way they understood and saw.

One thing is certain so far under the new pontificate of Leo XIV: the canons of liturgical warfare haven’t fallen silent. The rubrical battles, no doubt, will continue until our new pope issues a decree entirely lifting (or greatly liberalizing) the restrictions imposed by Pope Francis. It’s somewhat of a sad commentary on the state of Catholic life that so few Catholics even know what the stakes are. The current form of liturgy in the Latin Rite of the Church has more or less been what it is for 60 years. To follow the threads—in this case, severed threads—of this story takes patience and a reading of a number of books on the history of the liturgy and even on the Second Vatican Council and its implementation. …

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