Fr. McManus Tells How To Change The Church’s Law

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Fr. McManus Tells How To Change The Church’s Law

By W.H. MARSHNER

THE WANDERER
October 17, 1974

ST. PAUL — Fr. Frederick McManus, speaking here at the annual convention of the Canon Law Society of America, said that the canon lawyer should see himself both as an interpreter of law and as an advocate of legal “reform,” with a central role to play in the ecclesiastical autodestruction which, in Fr. McManus’s vocabulary, goes under the name of “renewal.”

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Cardinal Danielou On The New Liturgy… A Reform Compromised By Deviant Teachings

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Cardinal Danielou On The New Liturgy … A Reform Compromised By Deviant Teachings

By W.H. MARSHNER

THE WANDERER
April 18, 1974

Writing in the January-February issue of the prestigious, European theological journal Communio, Jean Cardinal Danielou has called in effect for a counter-revolution in the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship, which has long been dominated by a titular archbishop named Bugnini. Endorsing Pope Paul VI’s call for return to the use of Latin, at least in certain parts of the Mass, the French Jesuit Cardinal denounces the “radical” tendencies of the Vatican Congregation under Bugnini’s leadership — tendencies which Danielou says have led to “impoverishment” and “cultural debasement.”

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