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Turning the Tables CATEGORY: SESSIUNCULUM — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf @ 8:08 am This was an commentary on an editorial article in Notitiae of May 1993, which I translated from the Italian original. The translation was published in the Winter 1993 issue quarterly journal Sacred Music and this commentary appeared in Spring 1994. The article was "pirated" some years ago and put on line in various places without the permission of Sacred Music, or so the former editor Msgr. Richard Schuler told me. So, I feel entirely free to pirate it right back since I wrote it. I have cleaned it...

Newsletter Article:PART II: COMMENTARY ON MSGR. KLAUS GAMBER'S THE REFORM OF THE ROMAN LITURGY: ITS PROBLEMS AND BACKGROUNDby Fr. David-Ladislaus Przedwiecki, O.F.M.(Summer 1994) [EDITOR'S NOTE: Msgr. Klaus Gamber's book, The Reform of the Roman Liturgy: Its Problems and Background, has been publicly endorsed by three cardinals: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Cardinal Silvio Oddi, and Cardinal Alfons Stickler. Cardinal Ratzinger wrote in his preface to this book: "J.A. Jungmann, one of the truly great liturgists of our century, defined the liturgy of his time, such as it could be understood in the light of historical research, as a 'liturgy which is the...