Tradition and Sanity

Tradition and Sanity

“But What About the Other Six?”: Tradition Beyond the Mass

All the sacramental rites were changed for the worse. Here's why we need to recover their traditional forms

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Peter Kwasniewski
Aug 15, 2026
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Engraving by Antonie Wierix (II), Hollstein Dutch 1672 (source)

In 1969, A Short Critical Study of the Novus Ordo Missae was published with the signatures of two powerful cardinals, Antonio Bacci and Alfredo Ottaviani. Nicknamed “The Ottaviani Intervention,” it quickly become a classic, and has never gone out of print. But... where was its companion volu…

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