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The Old Rite Returns

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Rita Ferrone | Peter Jeffery | Joseph A. Komonchak | Bernard P. Prusak

With the release of the document Summorum pontificum in July 2007, Pope Benedict XVI extended permission for the old Tridentine Mass to be celebrated as "an extraordinary form of the Roman rite." Commonweal asked four writers to respond to the pope's decision: Widening Our Hearts, by Peter Jeffery A Step Backward, by Rita Ferrone One Cheer, by Joseph A. Komonchak Getting the Hi (...)


 

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Rita Ferrone is the author of several books about liturgy, including Liturgy: Sacrosanctum Concilium (Paulist Press).

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Peter Jeffery is Scheide Professor of Music History at Princeton University. He is the author of Translating Tradition: A Chant Historian Reads ‘Liturgiam Authenticam’ (Liturgical Press).

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Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.

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Bernard P. Prusak is chair of the Theology and Religious Studies Department at Villanova University.

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