[kstewskis]

By feelings, I mean the sensibilities of those people, especially the elderly, whose whole devotional life was tossed out of the window. The churches were stripped, and sometimes deformed. The "look," the "feel" or atmosphere of the churches changed.

No doubt what you are saying, but there is a larger problem within the Church that you are completely missing, the battle against liberalism.

Those within the Church who were/are "attached" to liberalism, have been a scourge for years. Popes have condemned it since the 1800's, and it came to fruition once the "New Order" mass was established.

I recommend reading some of the past encyclicals by Leo XIII, or St. Pius X, who spoke out against liberalism infecting the church. It goes far beyond feelings or sensibilities.

[RobbyS]

Of course I understand. Liberalism is infected by a spitit of positivism, which says that not only the Liturgy but the whole of what the Church has called tradition is no more than human invention and is therefore subject to manipulation and change. It even says the same thing about the Holy Scriptures.