[St.Chuck]

Here is how Cardinal Ratzinger has put it: "In the place of a liturgy as the fruit of development came fabricated liturgy. We abandoned the organic, living process of growth and development over centuries, and replaced it--as in a manufacturing process--with a fabrication, a banal on-the-spot product." (Ratzinger, Preface to Gamber's text.)

I do not know the if the cardinal's statement is explaining the thoughts of Klaus Gamber, or his own, but needless to say, Cardinal Ratzinger apparently doesn't have a problem with the N.O. mass, because that is mass he says.

[ultima ratio]

Ratzinger has complained about the New Mass constantly in his writings and speeches--most recently in his new text on the Liturgy, but also at the Conference at Fontgombault where he was amazingly frank. But he's a good soldier and has to live with the Pope on a daily basis. So he goes along with a bad thing--as many priests do, unless they reach a breaking point. Many more than ever are reaching that point, by the way. Increasingly priests are turning to Tradition and saying to hell with the Novus Ordo farce and the Novus Ordo bishops.