"Welcomes" Traditional Liturgy
Cardinal Medina Estévez, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, one of the newly appointed cardinals, made a very positive statement in an interview with the Chilean journal El Mercurio of 25 January 1998. He was asked what his reaction was to the claim that the liturgy has not been modernized sufficiently. His Eminence rejected this assertion forcefully, and cited the example of the Orthodox Churches which have not changed their liturgies in any way, and yet their liturgy remains a spiritual force absolutely central to the life of these churches.
The next question put to him was: "Others think that the decrease of faith is due precisely to the contrary, that the changes promoted (promovidos) by the Second Vatican Council alienated the faithful from going to church and from doctrine."
The Cardinal's response reads:
"There are persons who have a very great sensibility (sensibilidad) towards the liturgy as it was celebrated before the Second Vatican Council. Church authority understands this sensibility and welcomed (acoge) the desires of those persons and groups and authorizes them to celebrate the divine cult (concediendoles celebrar el culto de Dios) in accordance with the rite which existed before the aforementioned council, with the permission of the bishop of the diocese. In the Church there have always coexisted and coexist different liturgical families, all of them being wholly Catholic"
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