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🗓️ 23 September 2017
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People have asked me to discuss this issue, which I've written a book about, so I decided to make it into a bonus episode. (This episode is my appearance on Roger McCaffrey's Catholic Book Radio podcast.)
Ever since the "liturgical reform" of 1969-70, which yielded the modern Mass with which nearly all Catholics are familiar, Catholic traditionalists have urged the return of the traditional Latin Mass -- for reasons of theology, piety, tradition, beauty, and the like.
The issue was not one of language -- the new Mass can also be said in Latin. The issue was the rite itself, which had never been changed wholesale and by committee.
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0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1008, bonus episode. |
0:04.4 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
0:09.0 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
0:15.5 | Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. |
0:16.9 | For those of you interested, I'm sharing today an interview I did on another podcast, Catholic |
0:22.2 | Book Radio, with my friend Roger McCaffrey, who's been a guest on this show several times, |
0:27.1 | and whom I've known for a long time indeed. And we talk about one of my books called Sacred |
0:33.5 | Then and Sacred Now, The Return of the Old Latin Mass, And I've had some people who've had some interest in this. |
0:38.5 | So I thought, what the heck? |
0:39.3 | That's what bonus episodes are for. |
0:41.2 | So I'm putting this one in here. |
0:42.5 | If you're not interested in this, then just wait till Monday and there'll be more episodes. |
0:46.1 | Or you could always go, by the way, to tomwoods.com slash episodes and just start from the beginning. |
0:52.2 | You've got so, so many to go through. Anyway, we're |
0:55.2 | talking about this book today and the general subject in this podcast episode that I'm sharing |
1:01.1 | with you. Now, bear in mind, this was done very, very informally. We weren't using a pop filter |
1:07.0 | for my mic. So I feel like you really should be sitting down at a table with the mic |
1:12.0 | setup with the pop filter so that you don't get the occasional explosion sound, like when you |
1:17.4 | use the letter P or the letter B or whatever. But anyway, I hope you can overlook that. Just to set the |
1:23.6 | stage for this, for people who may not know the background, the conversation has to do with |
1:28.5 | the following. The Second Vatican Council, which was an ecumenical council of the church, held from |
1:34.2 | 1962 to 65, released a document relating to liturgical reform and recommended liturgical reform. |
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