tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post3591050144416653318..comments2024-03-22T18:43:00.710-04:00Comments on Unam Sanctam Catholicam: The Great Pius XBonifacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672810254075072214noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-77567412592321147742014-08-23T23:03:14.944-04:002014-08-23T23:03:14.944-04:00Wonderful post, but the last citation from Pascend...Wonderful post, but the last citation from Pascendi gave me chills; isn't this precisely what has happened?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-82180903973052384502014-08-21T23:44:57.630-04:002014-08-21T23:44:57.630-04:00In answer to your rhetorical question, no, the Bea...In answer to your rhetorical question, no, the Bear cannot imagine a present-day pope speaking thusly, nor is there any reason to expect such forthrightness from a future pope.St. Corbinian's Bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08732143790063120186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-59541666148914529882014-08-20T18:07:36.383-04:002014-08-20T18:07:36.383-04:00Certainly they made modifications, and that's ...Certainly they made modifications, and that's fine; but methinks for the most part earlier modifications still kept preserved the ancient tradition of the liturgy. Pius X did not do that, as regards the Psalter. His reform was the first big one. MaestroJMChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06552734342224710734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-43399097786451528102014-08-20T14:02:34.993-04:002014-08-20T14:02:34.993-04:00Perhaps, but then again, the concept that the litu...Perhaps, but then again, the concept that the liturgy was never touched before the 20th century is largely a myth. Various popes, going back to the 17th century, made modifications to the liturgy - nothing so sweeping as what happened in 1965-1975, but still, there were certainly small changes here and there.Bonifacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10672810254075072214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086833995941525990.post-47163154941846848962014-08-20T13:52:47.846-04:002014-08-20T13:52:47.846-04:00Of course, I agree that Pius X was a great pope as...Of course, I agree that Pius X was a great pope as far as his condemnation of modernism and personal holiness goes. I do think, though, that he was one of the first major reformers in the realm of liturgy. He radically revised the ancient Psalter of the Roman Breviary, which had some of its origins in the time of Christ, thereby setting a precedent for liturgical change which could be used to justify later papal action. It is a sort of liturgical ultramontanism which holds that the pope is the sole arbiter of the liturgy, with the right to dispense with centuries of tradition with the swipe of a pen.MaestroJMChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06552734342224710734noreply@blogger.com