Lots of discussion lately about changes in the Mass from Latin to English. Listen to a priest who lived through it all, Fr. Al Laubenthal of the Archdiocese of Cleveland. A seminary rector, a parish priest and a child of the Church before the Second Vatican Council. Take a step back and listen to someone who lived through all the changes of the last 85 years.

The Latin Mass and a pre-Vatican II priest, Fr. Al Laubenthal

“If other ages felt less, they saw more, even though they saw with the blind, prophetical, unsentimental eye of acceptance, which is to say, of faith. In the absence of this faith now, we govern by tenderness. It is a tenderness which, long cut off from the person of Christ, is wrapped in theory. When tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical outcome is terror. It ends in forced-labor camps and in the fumes of the gas chamber.” - Flannery O’Connor, A Memoir of Mary Ann

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The Latin Mass and a pre-Vatican II priest, Fr. Al Laubenthal