[Theresa]

"Let the ultra-traditionalist critics prefer this or that kind of architecture, this or that age or style of song, but so long as the essential elements of the Catholic Mass remain in place, it is a matter of taste, not orthodoxy. "

Yup.

[ultima ratio]

Nope. The essential elements are present at a Black Mass--but it is still an abomination. Non-essentials matter.

[Siobhan]

petrusv2: "Let the ultra-traditionalist critics prefer this or that kind of architecture, this or that age or style of song, but so long as the essential elements of the Catholic Mass remain in place, it is a matter of taste, not orthodoxy. "

Theresa: Yup.

Nope.