Novus Ordo Archive

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Is it really possible for the Church as Holy Mother to dispense a poisonous rite to her children, thus endangering them?

The principles and norms set forth in Sacrosanctum Concilium are a blueprint for exactly what the Novus Ordo is, an anthropocentric and worldly rite with a discernible Protestant pedigree.

The propositions and proposals set forth in the conciliar text run the gamut – from the clear cut to the contradictory, the blatantly erroneous to the deliberately confusing. How does one go about deciphering their true meaning and thus the Council’s vision for …

In his 1947 Encyclical on the Sacred Liturgy, Mediator Dei, Pope Pius XII attempted to set the record straight – and prophetically so, as we shall see – concerning the true relationship between the sacred liturgy and sound doctrine. He described the issue …

According to the latest Pew Research Center Survey (August 2019), of U.S. Catholics who “attend Mass weekly or more,” over one-third (37%) believe that the Eucharist is merely symbolic. If the survey was narrowed to Novus Ordo attendees only (removing those who regularly assist at the Traditional …

Many Catholic commentators – no small number being so-called “conservatives” – have expressed outrage over reports that Jorge Bergoglio, CEO of Conciliar Church, Inc., is moving to change the Lord’s Prayer from “lead us not into temptation” to “do not let us fall …