Como culminación de aquellos años de volátiles experimentos, se introdujo, en 1969, un nuevo rito de la Misa: no se trató sólo de un toque cosmético, sino de una radical reconstrucción del acto central del culto de la Iglesia. Una minoría de fieles siguieron adhiriendo fielmente al rito tradicional, que Juan Pablo II y Benedicto XVI liberaron gradualmente de restricciones. El constante crecimiento de este movimiento "tradicionalista" plantea inevitablemente dilemas a cada vez más gente. ¿Qué es lo que el laicado, el clero y los religiosos están descubriendo y que los enamora? ¿Podríamos -deberíamos- contarnos nosotros entre ellos?

En este cautivante libro, Peter Kwasniewski recurre a su experiencia de décadas, y sin exigir del lector ningún conocimiento especializado, le explica por qué la Misa tradicional obra como lo hace, cuáles son sus rasgos distintivos, cuáles sus beneficios, y cómo es que atrae el corazón con una belleza de hondas raíces, perennemente fresca. Todo lector -ya sea un declarado amante de la Misa de Siempre o un completo novato, ya esté comprometido con ella o sea un mero curioso, ya sea perplejo o escéptico, ya sea que esté convencido o que viva en un continuo vaivén entre lo antiguo y lo nuevo- habrá de encontrar en estas páginas intuiciones capaces de cambiarle la vida. 

The life and thought of John Henry Newman were permeated with the ceremonies and hallowed texts of Christian liturgies, which he celebrated for over six decades, starting as an Anglican deacon in 1824 and ending as a Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church. It comes as no surprise that allusions to liturgical worship are ubiquitous in his writings. The "ordinances" of the Church, her rich panoply of rites handed down through the centuries, are, for Newman, doors or windows into the heavenly society for which we were created and to which God is calling us throughout our lives. As Newman says in a number of places, we are given our time on earth to begin to live, through personal prayer and corporate worship, the life of the blessed in heaven.This volume gathers over seventy texts from a large number and wide range of Newman''s writings, ranging from the Tracts for the Times and Parochial and Plain Sermons to the Letter to Pusey, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, and Grammar of Assent. Forty-four of Newman''s incomparably great sermons are included in full. That Newman deserves his reputation as one of the finest spiritual writers of modern times and the greatest prose stylist of nineteenth-century England is abundantly demonstrated in these spirited and subtle reflections on the duty of reverence, the benefits of ritual, and the privilege of divine worship.

For a long time now, the majority position of Catholic theologians has been that canonizations conducted by the pope are infallible and inerrant. A minority current has always existed that disputes this view. Perennial difficulties with the nature and extension of papal infallibility as well as problems peculiar to recent decades in the Church make it timely to reexamine a debate that has lain dormant for too long, and to give proponents of the minority view an opportunity to make their case. The twelve contributors, sharing a desire for a candid and searching inquiry, argue both sides of the question fairly and fully. Each author brings distinct facts, observations, and arguments to the conversation. The result is a panoramic review of the historical, doctrinal, liturgical, and moral aspects of canonization, which displays a greater complexity than summaries in encyclopedias and manuals would suggest. This book is published as a spur to intensive theological engagement with a quaestio disputata that should not be prematurely treated as definitively solved.

Essays by Phillip Campbell • Fr. Thomas Crean, O.P. • Roberto de Mattei • William Matthew Diem • Christopher Ferrara • Msgr. Brunero Gherardini • Fr. John Hunwicke • Peter A. Kwasniewski • John R.T. Lamont • Joseph Shaw • Fr. Jean-François Thomas, S.J. • José Antonio Ureta

Como culminación de aquellos años de volátiles experimentos, se introdujo, en 1969, un nuevo rito de la Misa: no se trató sólo de un toque cosmético, sino de una radical reconstrucción del acto central del culto de la Iglesia. Una minoría de fieles siguieron adhiriendo fielmente al rito tradicional, que Juan Pablo II y Benedicto XVI liberaron gradualmente de restricciones. El constante crecimiento de este movimiento "tradicionalista" plantea inevitablemente dilemas a cada vez más gente. ¿Qué es lo que el laicado, el clero y los religiosos están descubriendo y que los enamora? ¿Podríamos -deberíamos- contarnos nosotros entre ellos?

En este cautivante libro, Peter Kwasniewski recurre a su experiencia de décadas, y sin exigir del lector ningún conocimiento especializado, le explica por qué la Misa tradicional obra como lo hace, cuáles son sus rasgos distintivos, cuáles sus beneficios, y cómo es que atrae el corazón con una belleza de hondas raíces, perennemente fresca. Todo lector -ya sea un declarado amante de la Misa de Siempre o un completo novato, ya esté comprometido con ella o sea un mero curioso, ya sea perplejo o escéptico, ya sea que esté convencido o que viva en un continuo vaivén entre lo antiguo y lo nuevo- habrá de encontrar en estas páginas intuiciones capaces de cambiarle la vida. 

The life and thought of John Henry Newman were permeated with the ceremonies and hallowed texts of Christian liturgies, which he celebrated for over six decades, starting as an Anglican deacon in 1824 and ending as a Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church. It comes as no surprise that allusions to liturgical worship are ubiquitous in his writings. The "ordinances" of the Church, her rich panoply of rites handed down through the centuries, are, for Newman, doors or windows into the heavenly society for which we were created and to which God is calling us throughout our lives. As Newman says in a number of places, we are given our time on earth to begin to live, through personal prayer and corporate worship, the life of the blessed in heaven.This volume gathers over seventy texts from a large number and wide range of Newman''s writings, ranging from the Tracts for the Times and Parochial and Plain Sermons to the Letter to Pusey, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, and Grammar of Assent. Forty-four of Newman''s incomparably great sermons are included in full. That Newman deserves his reputation as one of the finest spiritual writers of modern times and the greatest prose stylist of nineteenth-century England is abundantly demonstrated in these spirited and subtle reflections on the duty of reverence, the benefits of ritual, and the privilege of divine worship.

For a long time now, the majority position of Catholic theologians has been that canonizations conducted by the pope are infallible and inerrant. A minority current has always existed that disputes this view. Perennial difficulties with the nature and extension of papal infallibility as well as problems peculiar to recent decades in the Church make it timely to reexamine a debate that has lain dormant for too long, and to give proponents of the minority view an opportunity to make their case. The twelve contributors, sharing a desire for a candid and searching inquiry, argue both sides of the question fairly and fully. Each author brings distinct facts, observations, and arguments to the conversation. The result is a panoramic review of the historical, doctrinal, liturgical, and moral aspects of canonization, which displays a greater complexity than summaries in encyclopedias and manuals would suggest. This book is published as a spur to intensive theological engagement with a quaestio disputata that should not be prematurely treated as definitively solved.

Essays by Phillip Campbell • Fr. Thomas Crean, O.P. • Roberto de Mattei • William Matthew Diem • Christopher Ferrara • Msgr. Brunero Gherardini • Fr. John Hunwicke • Peter A. Kwasniewski • John R.T. Lamont • Joseph Shaw • Fr. Jean-François Thomas, S.J. • José Antonio Ureta