In today’s On the Square feature, Matthew Hennessey discusses liturgy and the diminution of American Catholicism :
The revolutionary developments of the late 1960s—the ones my friend remembers so affectionately—weren’t, in the end, enough to keep him and his cohort in communion with the Church whose hierarchy they now find so odious. My friend never considers for a minute the possibility that some of the reforms he found so timely and vital may have opened up the Church a little too much. He will not acknowledge the prospect that the current crisis in the American Catholic Church is at least partially a result of the Second Vatican Council’s well-intended attempts to let in some fresh air.
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