The Rad Trad

How is the 1962 liturgy different than what preceded it? For one, Pius XII “renewed” Holy Week by tossing it asunder and concocting som...

Bill Riccio's poignant reaction to recent proposals to modify the "liturgical books of 1962" (aka the "Mass of the Ages...

The MR 1965 restricted concelebration to as many ministers as could reasonably surround the altar. During Benedict XVI's interestin...

One of the few things this blog unambiguously advocates is a widespread reform of the Roman liturgy that involves recovering essential e...

We boutique liturgical fetishists have long pondered a minor question which, I think, illustrates the liturgical mish-mash discussed earlie...

Today much of the Tradosphere celebrates the issuance of then-Pope Benedict XVI's Summorum Pontificum , which largely deregulated u...

A correspondent and I were recently musing over the abolition of the vivacious, rich, and Paschal-like Roman vigil Mass of Pentecost in the...

Discussion about the Roman liturgy varies in Catholic circles. For most liturgically interested Catholics the debate is between the "E...

As part of our endeavor to "test" Dom Prosper Gueranger's thesis that the liturgical books of France, particularly the "...

The Rad Trad somehow stumbled upon this passive-aggressive hit piece on concerns some Catholics, often nervous residents of Traddieland, e...

from: Wikipedia.org A while back, perhaps over a year, New Liturgical Movement published a video of a 1962-Missal solemn Mass sung at ...

JohnR, a friend of this blog, recently alluded to something in a comment on the previous post concerning Fr. Anthony Cekada's thesis in...