Unabridged title:
Strange Moments In Liturgical History – How a Paragon of Liturgical Tradition May Have Caused Unintended Effects
This is a very good article and spot on. When one looks closely, there is a huge difference between having custody over something and having authority over something. The documents from Rome over the past century have been in tension vis a vis which verb best applies to the relationship between the Pope and the Liturgy. This action of Pius X, along with Pius XII’s holy week reforms, embodied the idea of authority rather than custody in a concrete way, and it is no coincidence that Bugnini, who in many ways was the point man for the exercise of authority under Pius XII, continued in such a trajectory under Paul VI.
Admittedly, courtesy of the printing press, the exercise of custody had become so efficient as to have become suffocating.
Ping!