Sharon Kabel

In 1971, for example, the assistant chancellor of the Diocese of Cleveland discussed the reality that Mass attendance had declined 11% since 1966 and he explicitly tied the liturgical reforms to this decline:

Interesting. Mass attendance rates fell more sharply in the years *before and during* Vatican II than in the decades after the council's implementation (the immediate decade after VII was the steepest tho)

In anticipation of the feast of the Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne tomorrow, I'm posting my annual round-up of posts and articles I've written on the subject. My latest post is a small collection of news clippings and ephemera about the Carmelites' beatification in 1906.

In anticipation of the feast of the Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne tomorrow, I'm posting my annual round-up of posts and articles I've written on the subject. My latest post is a small collection of news clippings and ephemera about the Carmelites' beatification in 1906.

In anticipation of the feast of the Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne tomorrow, I'm posting my annual round-up of posts and articles I've written on the subject. My latest post is a small collection of news clippings and ephemera about the Carmelites' beatification in 1906.

I actually think this is the next direction where liturgical scholarship is headed. Examining the time immediately before, during, and after the promulgation of the Novus Ordo and showing that a lot of the narratives you were told for years are fake history.